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Introduction
323.01 Experimental and manipulated photography > Introduction to capturing motion
     
In the nineteenth century Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne Jules Marey, Ernst Mach (1838-1916), Ottomar Anschütz (1846-1907) and the American painter Thomas Eakins[1] all set out to capture sequences of images - each sharp on their own that would provide improved understanding of the nature of movement. Whilst others such as the Italian Antonio Giulio Bragaglia sought to capture the overall flow of movement in a single photograph.
Masters of color photography, such as Ernst Haas in his appropriately called 'motion' series experimented in the overall flow but at the same time trapped the very essence of a bird in flight or a rodeo rider in a way that a fast shutter speed and sharp shot never could.
Ballet
323.02 Experimental and manipulated photography > Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet (1945)
About this photographer | Photographs by this photographer
   
When Brodovitch moved from Paris to Philadelphia in 1930 to head the Advertising Design Department at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art he started to teach visual arts and graphic design.[2] To say that his work influenced American design would be grossly understating his impact. The courses he ran had a coterie of students that would become leading photographers, designers and art directors right across America. Students included:[3]
Diane Arbus
Eve Arnold
Richard Avedon
Lillian Bassman
Karl Bissinger
Arthur Boden, art director at IBM
Ted Croner
Marvin Israel
Roy Faulconer
Mary Fullerton, assistant to Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar and art director of Mademoiselle
Stewart Graves
Joseph Gering, Brides
Robert Greenwell, art director of RCA Records
Nelson Gruppo, art director at Stage, Promenade, and This Week
Ryszard Horowitz
Paul Himmel
Hiro
Joe Jones, House Beautiful
Art Kane
Elizabeth Lovett
Alfred Lowrey, art director at Good Housekeeping, American Weekly, and Newsweek
Lisette Model
Tom Palumbo
Irving Penn, Vogue Magazine
Allan Porter, editor in chief Camera magazine
Tony Ray-Jones
Ed Schartzer, with N. W. Ayer and Son
David Steck, LIFE magazine
Victor Trasoff, art director of CBS
Garry Winogrand
While Alexey Brodovitch was art director of Harper's Bazaar (1934–1958) he hired photographers including Man Ray, Herbert Bayer and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
In 1945 Alexey Brodovitch published the book Ballet that consisted of blurred dance photographs of the 'Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo' taken in the late 1930's.[4] This was not a conventional ballet book because the intention was to capture movement.
Motion
323.03 Experimental and manipulated photography > Motion in black and white
   
323.04 Experimental and manipulated photography > Motion in colour
   
There are some photographers who dominate a particular style either by their early adoption of a technique or their mastery of how it is done. Ernst Haas in the 1950's experimented with how to capture motion with color film.[5]
Footnotes
- Λ Gordon Hendricks, 1972, The Photographs of Thomas Eakins, (New York: Grossman Publishers); David Sewell (ed.), 2001, Thomas Eakins, (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press)
- Λ For biographical information on Alexey Brodovitch - Kerry William Purcell, 2002, Alexey Brodovitch, (Phaidon)
- Λ This list has been updated from that on Alexey Brodovitch - Wikipedia
(Accessed: 25 April 2014)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch
- Λ Alexey Brodovitch & Edwin Denby, 1945, Ballet, (New York: J.J. Augustin) [Text by Edwin Denby]
- Λ Ernst Haas, Ruth A. Peltason & Inge Bondi, 1989, Ernst Haas: Color Photography, (New York: Harry N. Abrams)
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Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Inge Bondi
Haas, Ernst; Peltason, Ruth A. & Bondi, Inge, 1989, Ernst Haas: Color Photography, (New York: Harry N. Abrams) [Introduction by Inge Bondi] [Δ]
Antonio Giulio Bragaglia
Bragaglia, Anton Giulio, 1912, ‘L'arte nella fotografia‘, La Fotografia Artistica (Turin), vol. 8, no. 4 [Δ]
Bragaglia, Anton Giulio, [1913], Fotodinamismo Futurista, (Rome: Nalato Editore) [Δ]
Alexey Brodovitch
Brodovitch, Alexey & Denby, Edwin (text), 1945, Ballet, (New York: J.J. Augustin) [Text by Edwin Denby] [Δ]
Ernst Haas
Haas, Ernst; Peltason, Ruth A. & Bondi, Inge, 1989, Ernst Haas: Color Photography, (New York: Harry N. Abrams) [Introduction by Inge Bondi] [Δ]
Albert Londe
Londe, Albert, 1903, Album de chronophotographies documentaires a` l'usage des artistes, (Paris: C. Mendel) [Δ]
Étienne Jules Marey
1977, E. J. Marey, 1830–1904: La Photographie du Mouvement, (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou) [Δ]
Braun, Marta, 1994, Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press) [Δ]
Marey, Étienne Jules, 1878, La machine animale. Locomotion terrestre et aérienne, (Paris: Librairie Germer Baillière - Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale) [Δ]
Marey, Étienne Jules, 1890, Le vol des oiseaux, (G. Masson) [Δ]
Marey, Étienne Jules, 1894, Le Mouvement, (G. Masson) [Δ]
Eadweard Muybridge
Adam, Hans-Christian, 2010, Eadweard Muybridge: The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs, (Taschen) isbn-10: 3836509415 isbn-13: 978-3836509411 [Δ]
Ball, Edward, 2013, The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, (Doubleday) isbn-10: 0385525753 isbn-13: 978-0385525756 [Δ]
Haas, Robert Bartlett, 1976, Muybridge: Man in Motion, (Berkeley: University of California Press) [Δ]
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1893, Descriptive Zoopraxography or the Science of Animal Locomotion made popular, (University of Pennsylvania: Bureau of Education at the World's Columbian Exposition, in Zoopraxographical Hall) [Δ]
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1972, Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872–1882, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Museum of Art) [Introduction by Anita Ventura Mozley] [Δ]
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1979, Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, (New York: Dover) [Introduction by Anita Ventura Mosley] [Δ]
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1979, Muybridge’s Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, (New York: Dover Publications) [3 volumes, Introduction by Anita Ventura Mozley] [Δ]
Stillman, J.D.B., 1882, The Horse in Motion, As Shown by Instantaneous Photography, With a Study on Animal Mechanics, (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company) [Δ]
A.M. Worthington
Worthington, A.M., 1895, Splash of a Drop, (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) [Reprint of a Discourse at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, May 18, 1894] [Δ]
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