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MOVEMENTS OF AIR - GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN LAUREN...

The book Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey  that he
took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke  and
complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni. Laurent Mannoni
accurately reflects Marey's experimental approach. As the founder of the graphic method  Marey
is also the developer of an aerodynamic wind tunnel. His experiments' photographs in fluid
motion introduce us to a whole world of movements  turbulences and fluids. The resulting images
influenced generations of scientists and artists alike. Georges Didi-Huberman expands on the
philosophical debates surrounding these aesthetically and technically instructive images. He
makes Bergson the main interlocutor and even the secret commentator of the scientist's
experiments. Even though the scientist's main interest was graphic information  Huberman shows
us how the flow of all things draws the ingenious experimenter to a photographic practice that
creates drags  streaks  expansions  and visual dances. Marey's wind tunnel photographs were
therefore themselves causes of turbulence in the history of images. The two artists Florian
Dombois and Christoph Oeschger explore the graphical vortices of the last 120 years and provide
at the end of the book a collage from historical and contemporary material interlaced with
their own image making in Dombois's wind tunnel at the Zurich University of the Arts. The book
was published originally in French on the occasion of the exhibition Mouvements de l'air at the
Musee d'Orsay. The texts are now available for the first time as an English translation.

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