Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), early chronophatographer and inventor of the photographic gun, devoted three years near the end of his life to photographing the movement of air. The mesmerizing photographs he took in his four wind tunnels helped create the modern science of aerodynamics, but Marey was in many ways less interested in interpreting his beautiful pictures than he was simply in appreciating them. More images from a centenary exhibit at the Musee d’Orsay.
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