Hyo Myoung Kim
3,008 photos taken at approximately
one second intervals while walking on
streets, roads and various paths
"The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds
and water of fishes. His passion and his profession
are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the
perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an
immense joy to set up house in the heart of the
multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the
midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from
home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to
see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and
yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial
natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in
his incognito (Baudelaire: 1964)".
Baudelaire, C. (1964), The Painter of Modern Life, New York: Da Capo
Press
Étienne-Jules Marey sells sphygmograph, an instrument for graphically recording the form, strength, and variations of the arterial pulse.
Method of production: 3,008 photos taken at approximately one second intervals while walking on streets, roads and various paths in London, camera lens facing the direction of walking. Single-pixel width vertical strip cut and joined sequentially from left to right using each photo of 3,008 shots to form a 3,008 pixel by 2000 pixel, the dimension of one digital photograph of the camera used in making the series, digital image.
Pictured above: p1rd - from pedogram series © Hyo Myoung Kim