Sports photography, do you know what is unique about it?

From 65438 to 0878, Eadweard was employed by business tycoon and politician Leland Stanford, who was also the founder of Stanford University. Muybridge used photography to solve a problem that has puzzled horse trainers and artists for centuries: Do all four legs of a horse leave the ground when running? Muybridge set up 12 cameras and standardized background curtains along the runway, and took a series of continuous photos, which answered this question once and for all-the horse will leave the ground on all fours when running.

From then on, artists began to draw horses in motion with the help of these photos, just as Degas did in 1879. Muybridge became a celebrity and was invited by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to do sports research. During the period of 65438+80' s, he took about 65438+ 10000 photos of nude and various animals. Muybridge included 78 1 picture in his book Animal Movement. These sports studies convey a special sense of modern vitality, and the equidistant image series especially embodies the new rhythm of life in the mechanical age.

Etienne-Jules Maret, a French physicist, saw the photos of horses in motion taken by muybridge in Nature magazine, so he was also fascinated by sports research. He took a picture with his camera, opened the lens and put a rotating disc with notches at equal intervals on the back. When the notch rotates in front of the lens, the image is recorded so that the moving object shows a different position at each exposure.

Because Marley pays more attention to the mechanical principle of movement than the moving object itself, he asks his model to wear black clothes, with white lines on both sides from arm to toe, and then takes pictures of the model in front of the black wall. In this way, only the moving white line can be seen in the photo. Although Marley thinks that these studies have no artistic value, their achievements have produced fascinating abstract effects and influenced artists who are interested in the passage of objects through space.