- Movements in Pole Vaulting
- Successive phases of the pole vault
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 19 1/4 in. (22.2 × 48.9 cm)
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Using a process that made multiple exposures on a single
photographic plate in rapid succession, Étienne-Jules Marey could capture the visible traces of an entire movement in
regular intervals and study that action at a level of detail not attainable by
earlier photographic technologies. Although his studies were meant to help
understand how specific actions might be carried out more efficiently and
effectively, Marey’s photographs also foreshadow the revolutionary appearance
of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a
Staircase (1912) or the work of the Italian Futurist painters, extending
the two dimensions of a picture into the fourth dimension of time.
ProvenanceEx-collection David Hill, Paris; ex-collection Frank Kolodny, Princeton; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe.
Bought by Manfred Heiting from Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, on 10/8/1988.
Exhibition HistoryAvant le Cinematographie: La Cronophotographie; La Chapelle de l'Oratoire, Beaune, France, 1984.
“A History of Photography II: Selections from the Museum's Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 17–July 19, 2015.
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