Sequential Imagery Research
Research
In order to do a sequence of images of my own, it is
important to do a research about photographers who studied this type of
photography before. Therefore I choose three sequences of three different
photographers who were pioneers or at least had very significant works.
Eadweard Muybridge was an important photographer and
eccentric inventor who is known for his pioneering work with motion.
Spetacutaculation had raged for years over whether all four
hooves of a running horse left the ground at the same time. However this motion
was to fast for the human eye to detect. By 1879, Muybridge devised a more
complex method of photography that proved that horses do at times have all four
hooves off the ground during their running stride.
Near to the end of his life, he published several books
featuring his motion photographs and toured Europe and North America.
Elliot Erwitt, a Magnum photographer since 1953, is known
for his often satirical humorous black-and-white images and as a master of
empathic and humanistic photography. He is responsible for some of the most
iconic photographs of the 20th century, including portraits of figures like
Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, and Richard Nixon.
This series is part of "Sequentially Yours", a
book that, showing the same scene or/and object, investigates the
before-and-after decisive moment. In this series, a man takes a stick from his
dog's mouth, then is frozen in the act of throwing the stick into the water,
and finally, the third shot shows the dog standing with a circular wave in the
water. - what landed what in the water, the man or the stick?
Things Are Queer, 1973 by Duane Michals
"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell
you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce
somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new
ways."
- Duane Michals
Michals first made significant, creative strides in the
field of photography during the 1960s. He is widely known for his work with
series, multiple exposures, and text. Rather than serving a didactic function,
his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives
voice to Michals’s musings, which are poetic, tragicor humorous. (Reference: DC
Moore Gallery)
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Good that you have added research and references here - well done
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