Animal Locomotion, Plate 535
Medium
Collotype, from "Animal Locomotion"
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 30.1 cm (9 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.); Paper: 34.4 × 49.6 cm (13 9/16 × 19 9/16 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
212168
Art Historical Context
Step into the revolutionary world of Eadwe Muybridge's *Animal Locomotion, Plate535* (1887), a stunning collotype print from his monumental 11-volume series of the same name. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's and Media department, this 24 × 30.1 cm image captures essence of movement through sequential photography—a technique Muybridge pioneered in the late 19th century. Originally sparked by a bet from railroad magnate Leland Stanford about whether a trotting horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground, Muybridge's work shattered long-held artistic illusions of motion. Using a batt...
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...