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Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion, Plate 469, 1887

Description

Maker

  • Eadweard Muybridge, 1830-1904, English

Title

Animal Locomotion, Plate 469

Year

1887

Medium

Collotype

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • collotype

Dimensions

Sheet: 19.7 x 32.4 cm (7 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Printed on page with photograph:Animal Locomotion.Plate 469.Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge.All rights reserved.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund

Object Number

73.168

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

This photograph is the product of one of Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering experiments in the photographic study of the movement of human and animal bodies. Using a high-speed shutter and electromagnetic triggers, Muybridge recorded a variety of everyday acts, each presented through a set of adjacent and sequential images. For athletic activities, he used almost exclusively male students from the University of Pennsylvania as models. For domestic scenarios, such as
this presentation of a female toddler running, his models were local Philadelphia women and children. The scientific character of his project and its sponsorship by the university’s Veterinary School buffered it from the criticism and censure that other photographs of nude bodies received during that period. Artists and animators later used these images as models for their own work.

Capturing the Light

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Animal Locomotion, Plate 469 with the accession number of 73.168. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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