FS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Santa Barbara City College, Kinetoscope, American Inventor
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Photography had depicted the world as a series of objects, imposing on its subjects a quietness. But now, in muybridge"s work, it was again a world of procedures, for one picture showed a horse yet six pictures showed an event, a movement, a case. The essence of photography was fundamentally changed, and what could be portrayed. Muybridge was not alone in this search, but it was his work, alongside the. "chronophotographic" camera of the french photographer etienne-jules marey, that indicated a way of thinking about time and movement through successive frames. Thomas edison"s kinetograph and the lumi re brothers " cin matographe in. France soon captured our first films about the concepts and techniques muybridge rendered concrete: more acrobats and strongmen, like the stock images of "pre- cinema," but also everyday photos (the lumi re actualit s of staff and babies)
