Animal Locomotion, Plate 469
Medium
Collotype, from "Animal Locomotive"
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 32.3 cm (7 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.); Paper: 34.9 × 49.9 cm (13 3/4 × 19 11/16 in.); Mount: 48.7 × 61.3 cm (19 3/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
195559
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...