Artists Research - The Bragaglia Brothers

During the early 20th century the futurism movement was a great source of inspiration to many artists and eventually made its way into photography. The Bragaglia Brothers were two photographers that began creating pieces that conveyed movement of humans and animals as a photographic response to futurism. The brothers used shutter speed techniques within their photos to capture movement, by increasing the time the shutter stayed open they would make their subject move around in the image, causing motion blur and this blurry ghostlike effect. Another possible method of photography that could be used to achieve this same effect is double exposure by taking multiple photographs and overlaying them in editing software, however it would not capture the same blurred effect but would make the images a lot more sharper and crisp.