Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume XI, Wild Animals and Birds

Art Historical Context

Step into the pioneering world of motion capture with Eadweard Muybridge's *Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic of Consecutive Phases of Movements* (commenced 1872, 1885), specifically Volume XI on wild animals and birds. This monumental book, produced in the 1880s, showcases Muybridge's groundbreaking photogravures—precise, photomechanical prints that faithfully reproduced his sequential photographs. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department (acquired via Rogers Fund from the Library), it captures the fluid grace of elephants lumbering and birds in flight, freezing their na...

About the Artist

Eadweard Muybridge · 1830–1904

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English-American photographer who revolutionized the understanding of motion through his pioneering chronophotographic studies. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, he emigrated to America and became famous first for his dramatic landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, then for his groundbreaking motion studies that proved horses li...