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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, and the art of cubists and futurists.

Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound transformation in understanding and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Featuring 335 illustrations, Picturing Time includes many unpublished examples of Marey's chronophotographs and cinematic work. It also contains a complete bibliography of his writings and the first catalog of his films, photographic prints, and recently discovered negatives.

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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Pt. 1 Marey and His Work
• 1 Brains in His Fingertips
• 2 The Writing of Life: The Graphic Method
• 3 Reinventing the Camera: The Photographic Method
• 4 Animating Images: The Cinematographic Method
• 5 The Last Work
• Pt. 2 Marey's Legacy
• 6 Marey, Muybridge, and Motion Pictures
• 7 Marey, Modern Art, and Modernism
• 8 Marey and the Organization of Work Conclusion: Inventing the Inventor Catalog
• 1 Photographic Negatives and Prints Catalog
• 2 Original Chronophotographic and Photographic Experiments Catalog
• 3 Films Notes
• Bibliography of Works by Marey
• Index

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Most widely remembered for his studies that recorded movement and thus expanded our conception of time and motion through visual analysis, multifaceted French inventor Marey paved the way for advances in aviation, motion pictures, physical education, military reform, and labor efficiency. Marey's chronophotography, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's work of the late 1870s, even more fully broke down the study of movement as a continuous action, which allowed for greater examination and, ultimately, greater truth. Braun (Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto) researched Marey's work for more than ten years and was able to draw upon much material hitherto thought lost or destroyed. This book is a model for such a study: rich in detail and factual evidence, with vivid illustrations and diagrams, and a finely woven text that unfolds Marey's biography, the details of his inventions, and the genius of his mind. Braun further explores the legacy Marey left in the development of many fields of endeavor that were to have such a profound effect on the development of early modernist thinking and that are particularly evident in our painting and literature. This important study brings renewed significance to the study of photographic imagery and photographic methods at the junctures of science and the applied and fine arts. Highly recommended for all libraries concerned with the art, technology, and scientific thought of the period. Advanced undergraduate and beyond. P. C. Bunnell; Princeton University