Picturing Time The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey

Name: Picturing Time The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey
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ISBN: 9780226071756

ISBN-10: 0226071758

ISBN-13: 9780226071756

Edition: 1992

Authors: Marta Braun

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Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. Picturing Time, the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists. Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound transformation in understanding and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Featuring 335…

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 8.27" wide x 9.49" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Marey and His Work



Brains in His Fingertips



The Writing of Life: The Graphic Method



Reinventing the Camera: The Photographic Method



Animating Images: The Cinematographic Method



The Last Work



Marey's Legacy



Marey, Muybridge, and Motion Pictures



Marey, Modern Art, and Modernism



Marey and the Organization of Work Conclusion: Inventing the Inventor Catalog



Photographic Negatives and Prints Catalog



Original Chronophotographic and Photographic Experiments Catalog



Films Notes


Bibliography of Works by Marey


Index