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Etienne Jules Marey

Born in 1830 in Beaune, Etienne Jules Marey was a doctor and physiologist.

Considered a rare renaissance man in his time, he was a pioneer of photography and inventor of chronophotography (using photography to analyse a movement) and scientific cinematography.

In particular, in 1882 he developed the photographic gun, which allowed him to produce action shots of a moving person with 12 images in a frame.

In his specially-built physiological studio he produced fascinating otherworldly series of images that have become famous.