Animal Locomotion. Plate 161

Artist Eadweard Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904)

Date1887

MediumCollotype

DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches (15.88 x 45.09 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches (48.58 × 61.28 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2011.76.33

InscribedTitled on mount recto, bottom, in black type: "ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE 161"; On mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "28".

MarkingsOn mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "x-plate 28"

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionImages of semi-nude man jumping; shown in 2 rows each with 12 panels numbered 1-12.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Using exposures as rapid as 1/2000th of a second, Eadweard Muybridge recorded human and animal movement at the University of Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1886. His technique involved the use of two sets of 12 cameras to produce views from both the front and the side. He photographed a vast range of subjects, from men jumping to the gaits of dogs, horses, and elephants. In 1887, these views were published in a 781-plate collection titled Animal Locomotion.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2011;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.

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