メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「En garde! It's #WorldFencingDay ⚔️ Photographer Georges Demeny was the principal assistant to Etienne-Jules Marey, one of the 19th century's premier scientific investigators of the phenomenon of movement. In 1882, they set up Marey's "station physiologique"—the studio where they carried out pioneering motion studies. ⁣ ⁣ Using a process that could make multiple exposures on a single photographic plate in rapid succession, Marey and Demeny could capture the visible traces of an entire motion in regular intervals and study that action at a level of detail not attainable by earlier photographic technologies.⁣ ⁣ This picture was made in 1906, after Marey's death, while Demeny was professor of physiology at the national school of gymnastics and fencing at Joinville, which he established. A sport based in a repertoire of very precise, economical moves, #fencing lent itself naturally to Demeny's photography.⁣ ⁣ 📸 Georges Demeny (French, 1850–1917). [Fencer], 1906. Gelatin silver print. #TheMet @metphotographs」9月7日 23時31分