TIENNE-JULES MAREY

Chronophotograph of a high jump (Schenkel, high jump. Collge de France)

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TIENNE-JULES MAREY
Marey, tienne-Jules
Chronophotograph of a high jump (Schenkel, high jump. Collge de France)
Lantern slide of a Chronophotograph. 1886.
1.3/8 x 2.3/8in. (3.5 x 6.1cm.)

Literature

See: Braun, Picturing Time: The Work of tienne-Jules Marey, p. 108, fig 62, E.

Exhibited

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science, 17 January 1997 - 4 January 1998.

Lot Essay

The negative for this image is part of Marey's early work in chronophotographs. The subject is a soldier, named Schenkel, from the Ecole Joinville le Pont, a military gymnastic school. The original negative is in the archives of the College of France.

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