Castle of San José, Guatemala
1875, published 1877
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
1997.105.25
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the lush landscapes of 19th-century Guatemala with Eadweard Muybridge *Castle of San José, Guatemala* (1875, published 1877), a striking photoprint from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Muybridge, a pioneering British-American photographer renowned for his later motion studies, captured this image during his 1875 expedition through Central America, commissioned by U.S. government to potential trade routes and landscapes amid growing American interests in the region. This photograph exemplifies early landscape photography's power to bridge exploration and artistry. Muy...
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...