Experimental Technique Photography

Experimental Technique is an important thread within the history of photography. Experimental practices such as sequential exposure and chronophotography that pushed the technical limits of the medium. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementExperimental Technique
Photographers4

Overview

Experimental practices such as sequential exposure and chronophotography that pushed the technical limits of the medium.

Photographers

🇬🇧 🇺🇸GB / US1830–1904
Eadweard Muybridge
Scientific Photography
Scientific PhotographyExperimental Technique

Eadweard Muybridge became famous when Leland Stanford hired him to resolve the question of whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four feet from the ground at once.

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🇫🇷FR1830–1904
Étienne-Jules Marey
Scientific Photography
Scientific PhotographyExperimental Technique

Etienne-Jules Marey approached photography through physiology.

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🇺🇸 🇬🇧US / GB1882–1966
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Modernism
ModernismVorticism+1

Alvin Langdon Coburn first became known as a pictorialist through elevated city views and portraits of major cultural figures.

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🇭🇺 🇩🇪HU / DE1895–1946
László Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus Photography
BauhausNew Vision+2

Born in Hungary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy served in World War I and began drawing on his own while still in the trenches.

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