Chronophotography
連続写真／クロノフォトグラフィ / 1870s–1890s / Technique / Photographic Techniques
Decomposes movement into successive instants, making the structure of time visible in one or a series of photographs.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Multiple exposure
- Sequential bodies
- Equal intervals
- Motion analysis
Best used for
- Analysis that compares a movement step by step over time
- Holding a trajectory in one frame to show differences in speed
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Number each phase and note the interval outside the frame in one format
- Composition
- Dark plain ground with images spaced evenly along the direction of travel
- Material
- Multiple exposure, fixed camera, constant interval, white markers on the body
- Caution
- Overlapping exposures at uneven intervals makes speed unreadable, and the picture stops analysing movement and becomes a pile of overlaid figures.
- Further study
- Étienne-Jules Marey / Eadweard Muybridge / motion studies
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