Attitudes of Animals in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge
1879, printed 1881
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 15/16 in. (16 × 25.3 cm) Mount: 8 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22.4 × 32 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015
Accession Number
2015.778.33
Tags
Horses
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...