Sequence of the Mouth Pronouncing the Sentence ‘Je vous aime’ (I love you), Georges Demenÿ, c. 1891
collotype, h 180mm × w 272mm More details
Are these photographs or film footage? The line is blurred in this series of shots taken by Demenÿ in 1891. In the 24 images, he photographed or filmed himself uttering the words ‘Je vous aime’ (I love you). It takes about two seconds to make such a sequence. Demenÿ’s experiments were intended to teach people with auditory impairment how to read lips.
