Etienne Marey was a French scientist working in the late nineteenth century, he was a pioneer of both cineam and photography. His work looks at human movement using photography to capture and display the actions. His photography was created using a specially created “gun”, which captured 12 frames a second, all exposed onto the same image, allowing him to study movement. Later he developed a cinematic technique which captured movement at 60 frames a second.
Marey’s technique allowed the analysis of movement through the use of imagery, we can things that the eye cannot and study them in detail through the use of his work. The images lie in field where art and science cross over, which is something that interests me throughout my work. While the images are not designed to be aesthetic in an artistic sense, there is something about them which draws our interest, perhaps in the graphical way in which realistic people and animals are presented.
