One Metre Pace – Tests.
I’ve continued to explore peoples estimations of one metre. I wanted to find a more direct visual way of presenting the results whilst directly linking it to the original action & moment of estimation. Lining up the camera level and straight at 50mm I took before and after photos of a single metre pace. The crop width is one metre and the height is determined by the original camera proportions. Any over estimations are simply cut off, as are some of the heads of the people – height depending of course. Not only am i interested in combining the variations & inaccuracies of peoples estimations with the measured, but I’m also curious about the graphic representations of the findings. I like the image composition being determined by something outside of the purely aesthetic. I’m also increasingly aware of the photographic plane as document of an area of time, distance & space.
Marey’s Sphygmographe, 1859
Something that is fascinating me about Marey’s work is the idea of graphic inscription and data recording being a direct result of a physical action. The picture above shows his Sphygmographe which recorded the beating of the pulse. I’m interested in the scientific approach not only to measuring but also to recording direct visual data, the graph-(ic) representation as a means of making the transient fixed in time.
