Foot–Timing in the Age of Wi–Fi New Technologies Redefine Canine Movement BY DAN SAYERS T he world’s oldest sur- viving pho- t o g r a p h ,
When Niépce’s partner, M. Louis–Jacques–Mandé Daguerre, managed to shorten exposure time to allow the appearance of moving figures in his images, the inventor of the daguerre- otype exclaimed, “I have seized the light—I have arrested its flight.” This “arrested development” forever changed the way we look at our world and it encouraged a new vocabulary for
View from the Win- dow at Gras , was captured in 1827 by M. Joseph Nicephore Niépce. The grainy image of a Paris street scene required rough- ly eight hours of expo- sure that prevented the movement of ordinary Parisians from being captured for posterity.
light, line and—most especially—movement. STOP MOTION LOCOMOTION
Prior to the advent of photography, a portrait painter’s abil- ity to portray a galloping horse or a trotting dog was restricted by the limitations of his own sight. Even Renaissance masters couldn’t realistically capture a “snapshot” of the moving form. Leonardo and Michelangelo simply couldn’t see movement as individual “frames.” Instead, running animals were generally depicted in a rather simplistic manner. From the time of the
Coursing hounds and horses have been rendered at full extension since the time of King Tutankhamun. Photo courtesy The Illustrated Dog by Tom Howard.
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