The Muybridge Photographs

Muybridge. Man in motion

ROBERT BARTLETT HAAS, Muybridge. Man in motion, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1976, 4to, pp. xi, 207, illus., £12.00. The English-born photographer, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was the first to capture instantaneous motion on film and to project it on a screen, and the first successfully to develop a method of analysing movement into continuous series of ...

Photographs

Finding the truth behind photographs

In the analog world, photographic images have generally been accepted as ‘proof of occurrence’ of the depicted events. But today, the creation and manipulation of images is made simple by digital processing tools that are widely available and easily obtained. As a result, we can no longer take the authenticity of any images, analog or digital, for granted. This is especially true when they are ...

Negative emotional photographs are identified more slowly than positive photographs.

In three experiments, we investigated whether the emotional valence of a photograph influenced the amount of time required to initially identify the contents of the image. In Experiment 1, participants saw a slideshow consisting of positive, neutral, and negative photographs that were balanced for arousal. During the slideshow, presentation time was substantially limited (60 ms), and the images...

Distinguishing paintings from photographs

We addressed the problem of automatically differentiating photographs of real scenes from photographs of paintings. We found that photographs differ from paintings in their color, edge, and texture properties. Based on these features, we trained and tested a classifier on a database of 6000 paintings and 6000 photographs. Using single features results in 70–80% correct discrimination performanc...