Band may qualify as Richard Serra’s magnum opus, and is among the most formally elegant and technically complex works of Serra’s oeuvre, a sculpture that took him two-and-a-half years to develop. Learn more: http://bit.ly/1KagD4Z
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Richard Serra (United States, born 1939), Band, 2006, Purchased with funds provided by Eli and Edythe L. Broad]
Unlike the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge, who depicted movement as a series of discrete moments on separate, sequential negatives,
Marey’s analyses of motion are characterized by multiple exposures on a
single photographic plate. In this photograph, Charles Fremont, a civil
engineer who assisted Marey in his laboratory, used Marey’s method to
study blacksmiths at the anvil; the dynamic synthesis of their arced
blows traced the pattern of manual effort involved in the task.
Fremont’s photographic investigations into the conservation and
expenditure of energy during human labor established principles that
laid the foundation for modern industrial production.