Steven Sebring’s photographic series Study of Pose
by zenzaura
Edward Muybridge, study of moving objects
Everyone has always held Edward Muybridge’s images as the pinnacle of motion photography and one man has decided to update the way in which we can use images as a source to view the human body one frame at a time.
In order to put a modern spin on things, Sebring shot in 3D and created an app, for his series, which is jolly nice of him. To make the images he worked collaboratively with software developers and engineers to make 15-foot geodesic dome rig housing 100 cameras that could be fired at once. I would imagine that it looked pretty impressive. It reminds me of the way in which they shot some of the scenes in ‘The Matrix’ where the bullet time effect comes in and you are able to see a 360 pan around the character.
Sebring wanted to document as many different postures as possible and so sought a model that had been a part of ‘pose-off’s’ (who knew) called Coco Rocha and set about making every conceivable position.
The final shots are a combination of over 800 different poses that Rocha performed. The images themselves are beautiful black and white examples of how fluid the human form can be.
For a preview of the 360 pan on the app have a look at Sebring’s website: http://www.stevensebring.com/study-of-pose-1
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