Several weeks ago I posted some motion study related photos by Albert Londe, the groundbreaking French scientific photographer. The always observant Dee Exx noticed an anvil in one of them and inquired about blacksmiths in Londe's work. I replied that he indeed used them, but the most famous instance was by Eadweard Muybridge. The above single image is from a sequence, and the men have been identified as Redinger and Breen. (No, I don't know which is which.) You can see a GIF of these two from a different angle here:
maybe he recruited blacksmiths by telling them that one day their images would be seen world-wide via a technology that didn't exist yet-Dee Exx
ReplyDeleteThey probably thought that no one outside of a small circle of scientists would ever see them. Either way, they achieved a type of immortality.
Deletethanks. I didn't have names for these two men.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
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