Two important essays on Étienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke.
Featuring more than one hundred and fifty photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey—images captured between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke—and complements them with essays by Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni.
Mannoni begins by reflecting on Marey’s experimental approach. As the founder of the “graphic method,” Marey was also the developer of an aerodynamic wind tunnel. His experiments’ photographs of fluid motion introduced a whole world of movements and turbulences, and fluids, and influenced generations of scientists and artists alike. Didi-Huberman expands on the philosophical debates surrounding these aesthetically and technically instructive images. Even though Marey’s main interest was graphic information, Didi-Huberman shows us how the flow of all things drew this ingenious experimenter to a photographic practice that creates drags, streaks, expansions, and visual dances. Marey’s wind tunnel photographs were also themselves causes of turbulence in the history of images. The artists Dombois and Oeschger explore these “graphical” vortices of the last 120 years, providing at the end of the book a collage from historical and contemporary material interlaced with their own image-making in Dombois’s wind tunnel at the Zurich University of the Arts.
3 有用 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒕 2023-09-18 14:02:44 江苏
迪迪–于贝尔曼的推演非常漂亮,将马雷的时间摄影(尤其是后期实验性的烟雾摄影)阐释为从实证中脱胎出诗意的“万物之舞”,从而解构了马雷与柏格森之间的二元对立。马雷的烟雾摄影,令人想起洛伊·富勒象牙般质感的裙裾和马拉美笔下作为理念之显现的舞女。舞蹈,19世纪末文化极性的隐喻:运动的情念(pathos)与运动的程式表达(formulation)。
1 有用 Eco 2023-08-03 13:29:51 山东
英译本的图片排版更高级,但文字排版阅读上没有法文版友好。于贝尔曼写作部分既贴合文本又辩证超越,入乎其内出乎其外,虽然少了一些于贝尔曼经典的艺术史写作那种纵横捭阖之感,但仍是艺术评论的典范。