Eadweard Muybridge’s La Nature: Studies in Animal Locomotion (1878) to is an interesting work of art. Muybridge had set up twelve cameras in a row, attached a piece of string to the shutter and ran it along the horse’s path. When the horse ran in front of the cameras, the shutters went off, creating an image at 1/200th of a second. The result was a sequence of photographs that, when placed next to each other, captured the horse’s movement. The technique was innovating for its time and it was eventually picked up by other artists and photographers. We can see the technique in Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 piece, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
This is a style that I might be interested in trying using more modern photographic techniques. Specifically, with the use of digital photography, with either a DSLR or a smartphone.
