Wednesday 4 January 2012

Studies of air movements 1901: Etienne Jules Marey





The gorgeous studies of smoke in movement, how its transforms, adapts and consumes its space. All of these movements were described in space and time by Mareys graphical method . In the image above Marey studies the movement of air caused by a smoke machine, the photographer also looked at the displacement of objects. It was conducted in an aerodynamic wind tunnel, recording the behaviour of smoke in reaction to its obstacle.. These images combine and a poetical notion, dream like and free. Seemingly abstract, disguised from the original context, these images are transiently present giving an illusion of temporality. The movement of the air reflects an obstruction but also a creation of something new...this process is captured in the transformation.

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