3 3 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 25cm
Description
Photographs showing succesive phases of movement of an athlete at the Olympic Games, Paris, 1900. Taken by Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) on moving film with his latest-type chronophotographic camera, constructed about 1896. Marey was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement.
Image Details
Image Ref.
10232452
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