[Boys Playing Leap Frog]
1883–86, printed 1887
![[Boys Playing Leap Frog] by Eadweard Muybridge|The Photo-Gravure Company](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/boys-playing-leap-frog-268638.webp)
Medium
Collotype
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1938
Accession Number
38.82.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the lively photograph *Boys Playing Leap Frog*,adweard Muybridge the joyful energy of children at play, part of his groundbreaking *Animalotion* series (1883–86, printed 1887). Muybridge, a pioneering photographer, used a battery of up to 24 cameras triggered by tripwires to freeze sequential moments of motion, revolutionizing how we visualize movement. Here, boys vault over each other in mid-leap, their dynamic poses revealing the natural rhythm and athleticism of leapfrog—a timeless children's game. This collotype print, produced by The Photo-Gravure Company, exemplifies early photomecha...
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge|The Photo-Gravure Company · 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...