Movements of Air: The Photographs from tienne-Jules Marey's Wind Tunnels (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Two important essays on tienne-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 tienne-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
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