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...thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures. It would be possible to assemble another equally large exhibition from the prominent names left out -- Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon, to name a few -- but the shortcomings of the show are paltry compared with its pleasures...
...viewpoints: the table stood still, the eye moved. In futurism, the eye is fixed and the object moves, but it is still the basic vocabulary of cubism -- fragmented and overlapping planes -- that tells us so. Carra, Boccioni and, above all, Balla prized the photographs of sequential movement taken by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Some of Balla's own paintings, like the famous Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, are virtually straight renderings of multiple-exposure photographs. But in his series of paintings inspired by a Fiat speeding down the Via Veneto, the game gets more complex...
...expectation by taking his prototypes beyond themselves into grandeur. In earlier art there was a repertoire of classical emblems of energy and pathos, starting with the Laocoon, that painters could draw on for this operation. Bacon's starting point is less authoritative: photographs of anonymous, hermetic white bodies in Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, a snap of a baboon or a footballer in blurred motion, a wicketkeeper whipping the ball across the stumps, the bloodied face of the nursemaid of the Odessa Steps in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, her spectacles awry. These and other images begin...
...sense of vastness. Thus in the work of photographers like Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-82), we seem to be contemplating a landscape stripped to its last formal properties, strict and still and immeasurably old. Among these early landscape photographers-and some who came later in California, like Eadweard Muybridge and Carleton Watkins-there is no suggestion that landscape could be a metaphor of human emotion...
...going to make a name for myself," young Eadweard Muybridge told a friend. "If I fail, you will never hear of me again." The prediction was wrong on two counts. The 19th century British photographer was to be celebrated for his multiple photographs proving that during a gallop all four of a horse's hoofs leave the ground. His series became the basis for motion picture photography, and today the man should be as celebrated as Thomas Edison, to whom he was once compared. But Muybridge's pioneering works fell between the stools of still photography and cinema...