Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

by Marta Braun

Book Overview

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. Picturing Time, the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226071731
• ISBN13: 9780226071732
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 9.5"