Muybridge's Influence
So I found it interesting to look into some of the influences that Eadward Muybridge has had on other artists and current experimental techniques.
One such modern artist happens to be the band U2. In their music video for their song Lemon, they pay tribute to Muybridge. It is rather strange though watching this on video because the notion to capture images in motion is being shown on a motion medium (the music video). Thus, the effect is slightly different of course, but nonetheless interesting. Here is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fCE_ASpejs
Another influence of Muybridge concerns Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase painting. This is strikingly similar in intention to Muybridge's Nude Descending Stairs.
Both attempt to fragment the motion and capture it. However, the difference is that Duchamp overlays many of the fragments while Muybridge is showing them as separate, sequential entities.
One such modern artist happens to be the band U2. In their music video for their song Lemon, they pay tribute to Muybridge. It is rather strange though watching this on video because the notion to capture images in motion is being shown on a motion medium (the music video). Thus, the effect is slightly different of course, but nonetheless interesting. Here is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fCE_ASpejs
Another influence of Muybridge concerns Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase painting. This is strikingly similar in intention to Muybridge's Nude Descending Stairs.
Both attempt to fragment the motion and capture it. However, the difference is that Duchamp overlays many of the fragments while Muybridge is showing them as separate, sequential entities.
Finally, many of Muybridge's motion captures deal with the movement of athletes. Thus, he may have set the foundation for present day analysis of every athlete's motion. Professional athletes are tested in every single aspect, such as stride length, frequency of various motions, angular positions, degree of rotations, etc. This data is the then analyzed by researchers to determine "optimal" techniques, etc.
Here is simply one example in golf concerning motion analysis:
Thus, Muybridge's work has proved quite influential both in art (Duchamp's painting) and science/experiment (athletic motion analysis).
Can anyone think of other influences Muybridge has had?
3 Comments:
I think Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase was more influenced by Marey than Muybridge, personally. Marey was a contemporary of Muybridge, also doing motion studies, but Marey combined multiple instances of time onto one photographic plate, unlike Muybridge who used multiple cameras for multiple instances.
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I'm creating muybridge's style of photography and the other artist's you've mentioned will be great references. xx
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