Edward Muybridge:

Eadweard Muybridge is an British photographer born on April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England and died on May 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames. Maybridge was born in a small town in the south of London, named Edward James Muggridge. In 1852, he moved to New York, where he became Edward Muggridge; In 1855, he moved to San Francisco, where he became E J.Muggridge. Then there is E J.Muygridge. Finally, Eadweard Muybridge. For Maybridge, sports are the core of his work and identity. (moma). Muybridge’s experiment of photographing motion began in 1872, when railroad giant Leland Stanford hired him to demonstrate that at specific moments in the gait of a racehorse, all four legs were simultaneously off the ground. His first attempt was unsuccessful because his camera did not have a fast shutter speed. Although he was acquitted for murdering his wife’s lover, he found it advantageous to travel in Mexico and Central America for many years, taking promotional photos for Union Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of Stanford University. From 1884 to 1887, Muybridge conducted the most important photographic research on sports under the sponsorship of the University of Pennsylvania. These photos include photos of various activities of the human body, both dressed and naked, which will form a visual compilation of human movements for artists and scientists to use. Many of these photos were published in the book “Animal Movement: Electronic Photography of Continuous Stages of Animal Movement” in 1887. Muybridge continued to promote and publish his works until he retired and returned to his birthplace in 1900. (Britannica). Muybridge is known for his pioneering time-based photography of animal movements between 1878 and 1886, where he used multiple cameras to capture different positions in one step; There is also his zoologist microscope, which is a device for projecting and painting films from glass discs, predating the flexible perforated film used in cinematography. (wikipedia). Quote by Eadweard Muybridge: “We are going to find out everything that photography can teach us about animal movement.” (moma). 

 

Alexey Titarenko:

Alexey Titarenko was born in 1962 on Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He started photography at the age of 9 in 1971 and graduated from Leningrad Public University with a degree in Journalism Photography in 1978. In the same year, Titalenko became a member of the independent photography club “Zerkalo” and held his first solo exhibition. Titalenko’s prints were carefully crafted in a dark room. Bleach and color grading add depth to his meticulous gray palette, giving each print a unique interpretation of his experiences and injecting personal and emotional visual features into his works. Titarenko gained international acclaim in the early 1990s for his “City of Shadows,” a series of photos of his hometown taken after the collapse of the Soviet Union, inspired by music by Dmitry Shostakovich and novels by Dostoevsky. Titalenko applied long-term exposure, intentional camera movement, and expert printmaking techniques to street photography, providing a powerful meditation on urban landscapes that are still filled with a painful history. Recently, this special beauty has been emphasized in the Havana series of prints exhibited at the Getty Museum. (Alexey Titarenko). In 2015, Titalenko’s first monograph “City is a Novel” was published by Damiani and was selected as one of the best photography collections of the year by The Wall Street Journal. Titarenko handcrafts each print in his darkroom, producing rich and subtle tones that make each work unique. This exquisite printing is particularly suitable for Titalenko’s long-term interest in water and its relationship with cities, showcasing the texture and reflectivity of snow, rain, clouds, and urban ports and waterways, and injecting moisture and light into each image. (nailya alexander gallery).

 

 

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