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Étienne-Jules Marey (
March 5,
1830 –
May 21,
1904) was a
French scientist and
chronophotographer, born in
Beaune, France.
His work was significant in the development of
cardiology, physical instrumentation,
aviation,
cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of
photography and an influential pioneer of the
history of cinema.
He started by studying how blood moves in the body. Then he shifted to analyzing heart beats, respiration, muscles (myography), and movement of the body. To aid his studies he developed many instruments for precise measurements. For example, he was successful in selling an instrument called
Sphygmographe to measure the
pulse. In 1869 Marey constructed a very delicate artificial insect to show how an
insect flies and to demonstrate the figure-8 shape it produced during movement of its wings. Then he became fascinated by movements of air and started to study bigger flying animals, like birds. He adopted and further developed
animated photography into a separate field of
chronophotography in the 1880s. His revolutionary idea was to record several phases of movement on one photographic surface. In 1890 he published a substantial volume entitled
Le Vol des Oiseaux (“The Flight of Birds”), richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams. He also created stunningly precise sculptures of various flying birds.
Marey studied other animals too. He published
La Machine Animale in 1873 (translated as "Animal Mechanism"). The English photographer
Eadweard Muybridge carried out his "Photographic Investigation" in
Palo Alto, California, to prove that Marey was right when he wrote that a
galloping horse for a brief moment had all four
hooves off the ground. Muybridge published his photos in 1879 and got some public attention.
Marey hoped to merge
anatomy and
physiology. To better understand his chronophotographic images, he compared them with images of the anatomy,
skeleton,
joints, and muscles of the same species. Marey produced a series of drawings showing a horse trotting and galloping, first in the flesh and then as a skeleton.
Marey's chronophotographic gun was made in 1882, this instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second, and the most interesting fact is that all the frames were recorded on the same picture, using these pictures he studied horses, birds, dogs, sheep, donkeys, elephants, fish, microscopic creatures, molluscs, insects, reptiles, etc. Some call it Marey’s "animated zoo". Marey also conducted the famous study about cats landing always on their feet. He conducted very similar studies with a chicken and a dog and found that they could do almost the same. Marey also studied human
locomotion. He published another book
Le Mouvement in 1894.
Marey also made movies. They were at a high speed (60 images per second) and of excellent image quality: in slow-motion cinematography, he'd come close to perfection. His research on how to capture and display moving images helped the emerging field of
cinematography.
Towards the end of his life he returned to studying the movement of quite abstract forms, like a falling ball. His last great work was the observation and photography of smoke trails. This research was partially funded by
Samuel Pierpont Langley under the auspices of the
Smithsonian Institution, after the two met in
Paris at the
Exposition Universelle (1900). In 1901 he was able to build a smoke machine with 58 smoke trails. It became one of the first
aerodynamic wind tunnels.
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