Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print

Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print

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Dragonfly in flight (frame 41 to 45). Late 20th century silver gelatin print, made from original chronophotographe cine-films taken by Étienne-Jules Marey and Lucien Bull between 1891-1902 in their researches on the analysis of animal locomotion.

An assistant of Etienne Jules Marey beginning in 1896, Bull accepted a permanent position at the Marey Institute in 1902. He first worked on stop motion, then dedicated his efforts to the opposite technique, fast-motion, and came up with extremely innovative systems. By combining electrical sparks, a lens with a rotating prism and fast 35mm film, Bull recorded at a rate of 800 images/second, for ‘Flight of a Common Fly’ (1903), then at 2000 images/second (1905). By increasing the frequency of sparks, Bull achieved rates of 15,000 images/second in ‘Firing a Gun’ (1914) and finally reached a rate of one million images/second in the late 1940s with ‘Shockwave’.

Details

Category:
Cinematography
Object Number:
1957-74/18/1/10
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 405 mm x 140 mm
image: 394 mm x 125 mm
type:
silver gelatin print
credit:
L'Institut Marey