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Chronophotography

Chronophotography was an early 20th century photographic technique pioneered by Edward Muybridge to capture motion. Muybridge's images of animals and humans in motion were the first to truly stop motion and allowed for close study. This revolutionized art, photography, and science by providing physical proof of movement that contradicted historical depictions. While chronophotography preceded cinema, it focused on documenting life and events rather than entertainment. Muybridge's chronophotographs of galloping horses proved prior paintings were inaccurate by showing all four legs leave the ground, an achievement that advanced scientific understanding of motion.

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Chronophotography

Chronophotography was an early 20th century photographic technique pioneered by Edward Muybridge to capture motion. Muybridge's images of animals and humans in motion were the first to truly stop motion and allowed for close study. This revolutionized art, photography, and science by providing physical proof of movement that contradicted historical depictions. While chronophotography preceded cinema, it focused on documenting life and events rather than entertainment. Muybridge's chronophotographs of galloping horses proved prior paintings were inaccurate by showing all four legs leave the ground, an achievement that advanced scientific understanding of motion.

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Chronophotography.

Chronophotography was an early 20th century milestone for art, photography and
science. Edward Muybridge is well known for his moving images of animals and
human movement, his invention was the first time we could really stop motion in time
and enabled us to study living motion closely. This new form of photography
revolutionised the future and brought on modernism. There are many many
chronophotogrpahers in which had emerged throughout the 20th century such as
Marcel Duchamp (well known for nude descending staircase 1913) and tienneJules Marey well known for overlapping the multiple exposures.

(Muybridge,1878)

(Duchamp, 1952)
Nearly every book about the history of cinema offers Muybridge as one of its
"parents". We have all grown up with moving images, so it is difficult not to connect
his instantaneous consecutive images with cinema. And while it is true that
Muybridge himself devised a way of animating his photos (the Zoopraxiscope of
1879), he saw it as a novelty, far removed from the serious and noble project of
stopping things. Chronophotography and cinematography give rise to incompatible
yet intertwined ideas about the truth of images, time and motion. More importantly,
they are aesthetically distinct forms (campany, 2010)
Chronophotography is cinematographys predecessor as again in advanced of
technology over time and accessibility to artists, but chronophotography was first

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developed for the study of moving life and documenting certain things like wars,
historical moments and for portraiture .Physical proof and vital evidence needed for
science started to appear from these moving images as they were a direct
representation of whatever the moving image was, just like the accounts of Edward
Muybridge and the galloping horse. Muybridges moving images of the horse
galloping defied previous historical paintings in which all painted horses legs were
not painted to how a horse actually runs in gallop, from the experiment Muybridge
had set out, he proved that all 4 legs of the horse are off the ground in mid gallop.
This was the first correct representation of horses in movement. "Before these
pictures were taken, no artist would have dared to draw a horse as a horse really is
when in motion, even if it had been possible for the unaided eye to detect his real
attitude." (The scientific American, 1878).

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