Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume V, Man (Pelvis Cloth)

Art Historical Context

Eadweard Muybridge’s monumental project *Animal Locomotion* represents one of the most ambitious photographic studies of movement ever undertaken. Begun in 1872 and completed in 1885, this encyclopedic work comprises thousands of sequential images that broke down the of humans and animals into individual phases. Volume V, to male figures, captures men in everyday and athletic motions while wearing only a minimal pelvis cloth, allowing clear observation of the body’s mechanics. The plates were produced as photogravures, an intaglio printing process prized in the nineteenth century for its rich...

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...