SEQUENCE
Sequences of action are extremely fascinating, particularly when what is happening is too fast for the eye to take in every detail of movement. In the 1870s and 1880s Eadweard Muybridge made his mark in photography by creating a genre of sequential images to show animals, and later humans, in motion. Slicing up the movement shows us something new in an analytical way, and is the equivalent of selecting frames from a video of the event. This is a Changeable Hawk-Eagle taking off and flying close to the ground at a falconry center; a simple matter to shoot by panning from left to right. An uncomplicated way of showing how the bird flies would be to stack the frames in a strip. But with some more effort, the entire sequence could be turned ...
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