Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Continuous or kinetoscopic photography; the photographing of successive phases of a scene, movement, etc., at such short intervals that the whole is reproduced with apparent continuity.
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- noun An
antique photographic technique from theVictorian era which capturesmovement in severalframes ofprint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His attempts at capturing movement are exhibited alongside the developing mediums of the era, including early film by the Lumière brothers and Eadweard Muybridge's chronophotography.
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There is some fascinating, well-observed material on microcinematography, electric cinematography and chronophotography, with information (and fine illustrations) gleaned from experimenters such as Percy Smith, Jean Comandon, E.J. Marey and Lucien Bull.
The Bioscope 2009
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Travel photographs by Francis Frith and Maxime du Camp and chronophotography by Eadweard Muybridge also occupy a prominent place in the FOTOGRAFIS collection.
Art Knowledge News 2009
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Travel photographs by Francis Frith and Maxime du Camp and the chronophotography of Eadweard Muybridge have a prominent place in FOTOGRAFIS.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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Marey distinguished between two categories of chronophotography: that incorporating multiple images on moving or revolving plates (more akin to Muybridge and sequential cinematic imagery) and that in which, on a stationary plate, succeeding images were registered and often superimposed according to the speed and spread of movement through the field of vision.
Marey and Chronophotography Aaron Scharf 1
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