Modifications De La Photo Chronographie Pour L Analyse Des Mouvements Executes Sur Place Par Un

by Etienne Jules Marey

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1888. A remarkable collection of offprints documenting Marey’s foundational contributions to the science of cinematography. Marey was “the lead character in the birth of scientific cinema” Tosi, p. 82 ; he “was the first to use a single camera to produce photographs on a strip of sensitized film in real time, rapidly enough for the illusion of movement to be reconstituted for more

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