Animal Locomotion. Plate 60

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

Date1887

MediumCollotype

DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 12 13/16 inches (23.97 × 32.54 cm)
Mount: 19 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches (48.58 × 61.28 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2011.76.20

Signednone

MarkingsOn mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "x plate 18"

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DescriptionImages of a semi-nude man running arranged in three rows. Top two rows of images are in profile, bottom row is head on.Gallery Label

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Eadweard Muybridge recorded a vast range of human and animal movement between 1884 and 1887 at the University of Pennsylvania. The project culminated in a 781-plate collection titled Animal Locomotion. Muybridge arranged two sets of twelve cameras to record his subjects’ movements sequentially from both the front and sides. His brief exposures, as rapid as 1/2000th of a second, far surpassed the capacity of the human eye. These groundbreaking studies influenced the scientific study of biomechanics, as well as the development of the modern art movement known as Cubism.

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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