Futurism

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Futurism

• Futurism also known as Italian futurism
• Was inspired by Henri Bergson’s philosophical ideas on dynamic movement
• The futurist painters began to freely adapt the photographic motion studies of French biophysicist Etienne-Jules Marey and Anglo-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

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• Anton Giulio Bragaglia worked with his brother Arturo Bragaglia
• Together they develop a method of capturing movement they called photodynamism

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• Bragaglia brothers plotted the movement of the pictures and they usually would start left to right
• They would at sections on motion blur

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• Despite their proclaimed interest in new technologies, the Futurists largely neglected photography after these early experiments until the 1930s.

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• The 1930s also saw the merging of photographic technology with other Futurist art forms, especially dance, painting, and performance inspired by mechanized flight.

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• In the 1930s F. T. Marinetti and Tato declared photography to be a powerful tool in the Futurist effort to eliminate barriers between art and life.

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