Théâtre Optique
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To create this image, I used a fish-eye and cardboard shapes inspired by an 1887 work by Edweard Muybridge (1830-1904), entitled “A man walking“
Muybridge, at the end of the 19th century, used chrono-photography to study the movement of humans and of animals. This technique consisted of a system of sequential shots, taken by several cameras, of an element moving along a path.
I placed a rotating disk platform, fitting it on the star-tracker to make it rotate around the camera, whose lens was aligned with the Earth’s axis. The radius of the disk corresponded to a distance measured carefully to allow the shapes to rest on the edge of the circular frame of the fish-eye.
The final work, thus, consists of 2 different works, apparently opposing but coordinated:
– a static one, that is a photo with the apparent movement of the stars given by the star-trail
– a dynamic one, that is a time-lapse video, in which the movement is created both by the earth’s rotation (and therefore by the apparent rotation of the stars) and by the shapes, drawing inspiration from Charles-Émile Reynaud’s praxinoscope works.
Camera: Nikon D750; fish eye 8mm. About 600 shots; 25sec; F/3.5; 400 ISO
Location: Modica Countryside (Sicily-ITA)
Day: 2021/9/4-5
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