Plate 361, Eadweard Muybridge

Artwork Overview

1830–1904
Plate 361, 1887
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: collotype
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 23.3 x 31.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 3/16 x 12 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1971.0118
Not on display

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Images

Label texts

Archive Label: Using a system of multiple cameras, Muybridge made photographs of the human body in motion. In doing so, he was more concerned with artistic representation than with science. The grids against which the figures move and the grids into which the individual frames are organized suggest scientific certitude, yet the relationships of time and space from frame to frame are neither obvious nor specified. Muybridge reproduced his photograph through collotypy, a means of printing photographs using photo-sensitized gelatin on glass that produced images with no perceptible grain.

Exhibitions

Citations

Pultz, John. The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995.

Enyeart, James, and Elizabeth Broun, Randolph A. Youle, Ronald Schneider. Language of Light. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1974.