Muybridge was an English Photographer, 1830-1904. He looked at pioneering work and creating studies of motion through photography and also did some work on motion-picture projection. Muybridge's pioneering work consisted on animal locomotion in 1877 -78. He used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs. Muybridge also had a device called a 'Zoopraxiscope' which he invented in 1879. This projected motion pictures onto a film strip which was rotated on glass disks rapidly to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images he had captured were painted onto the glass or produced with holes onto the film strip. This is now used in cinematography. It is said that this was in fact the first ever projector produced. In the 1880's Muybridge then went onto the University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Here he produced over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion. Muybridge managed to capture what the human eye cannot distinguish as separate movements.
I really like the idea of using Muybridge's idea of capturing motion within my project as dance is all about movement and the structure of how dancers get their bodies to move in such ways. Although I do not own a Zoopraxiscope and only one camera I have thought of a different way to produce my own inspired photography. I could set up my camera in my dance studio and record dancers movement as a film. I could then take this footage and pause the clip each second to produce images. On the other hand, I could set my camera onto the continuous shutter, meaning I could capture many images all at once as the dancer moves. All of my footage could then be turned into short films, gifs or presented in the style of Muybridge as a film strip. This is one idea that could help me progress my project.
(Zoopraxiscope)
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