Well today using my 'get in for free Tate card' I visited the Eadweard Muybridge exhibition, and I was quite inspired by the photography I saw. The photos had a brown gradient to them...i'm guessing is due to how old they are!!! I thought it was amazing how this particular photographer was able to capture movement of both animals and humans. There was one in particular which stood out for me which was a sequence of photographs of a bird...very hard to do...I would imagine in today standards it would be equally as difficult :)
There were sequences of athletes perfoming particular movements...the tone of the photographs picking out all the details of muscles in the athletes legs and arms as they performed jumps and acrobatics.
There were many sequences involving animals, and I thought the sequences of the horses were particularly interesting, as you are able to observe how their bodies move as they slowly gallop across the picture, even though in real time the power and speed of the animal would have caused the eye to miss particular details.
Mubridge also had landscape pictures, and in fairly big glass cases there were photos joined together to display every aspect of cities in one piece. I hope to develop this kind of idea in my future work....overall i enjoyed this exhibition :-)
