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Lot Essay
Après des études de médecine, Marey n’a qu’une seule obsession : la physiologie. Il se consacre alors à l’étude de l’énergie du corps et du mouvement. Après l’invention du sphygmographe, instrument qui enregistre le pouls, il perfectionne un appareil capable d’enregistrer les images. Il réalise ses premières expériences à l’aide d’un fusil photographique, représenté sur l’une des plaques, qui pouvait produire jusqu’à douze images séquentielles par seconde sur un disque de verre.
Marey effectuait ses recherches à la Station physiologique, laboratoire fondé en 1882 à son initiative. Cette expérience, menée entre 1890 et 1891 par les gymnastes de Joinville-le-Pont, est enregistrée dans l’un des hangars noirs, dont le toit est aisément reconnaissable.
Marcel Duchamp expliquera l’influence déterminante de la chronophotographie de Marey sur son travail, notamment lorsqu’il peindra le Nu descendant l’escalier en 1912 (Philadephie, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
After completing his medical studies, Étienne-Jules Marey devoted himself entirely to a single obsession: physiology. He dedicated his research to the study of bodily energy and movement. Following his invention of the sphygmograph, an instrument designed to record the pulse, he developed increasingly sophisticated devices capable of recording images. His first experiments were carried out using a photographic gun, depicted on one of these plates, which could produce up to twelve sequential images per second on a glass plate.
Marey conducted his research at the Physiological Station, a laboratory he founded in 1882. The present experiment, carried out between 1890 and 1891 with gymnasts from Joinville-le-Pont, was recorded in one of the station’s distinctive black sheds, whose roof is readily identifiable.
Marcel Duchamp later acknowledged the decisive influence of Marey’s chronophotography on his own work, particularly when painting Nu descendant un escalier (Nude Descending a Staircase) in 1912 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia).
Marey effectuait ses recherches à la Station physiologique, laboratoire fondé en 1882 à son initiative. Cette expérience, menée entre 1890 et 1891 par les gymnastes de Joinville-le-Pont, est enregistrée dans l’un des hangars noirs, dont le toit est aisément reconnaissable.
Marcel Duchamp expliquera l’influence déterminante de la chronophotographie de Marey sur son travail, notamment lorsqu’il peindra le Nu descendant l’escalier en 1912 (Philadephie, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
After completing his medical studies, Étienne-Jules Marey devoted himself entirely to a single obsession: physiology. He dedicated his research to the study of bodily energy and movement. Following his invention of the sphygmograph, an instrument designed to record the pulse, he developed increasingly sophisticated devices capable of recording images. His first experiments were carried out using a photographic gun, depicted on one of these plates, which could produce up to twelve sequential images per second on a glass plate.
Marey conducted his research at the Physiological Station, a laboratory he founded in 1882. The present experiment, carried out between 1890 and 1891 with gymnasts from Joinville-le-Pont, was recorded in one of the station’s distinctive black sheds, whose roof is readily identifiable.
Marcel Duchamp later acknowledged the decisive influence of Marey’s chronophotography on his own work, particularly when painting Nu descendant un escalier (Nude Descending a Staircase) in 1912 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia).