Cathedral at La Union, El Salvador
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
1997.105.18
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Art Historical Context
Step into the sun-drenched streets of La Unión, El Salvador, through Eadweard Muybridge's captivating 1875 photograph, *Cathedral at La Unión El Salvador*, published in 1877. This photoprint captures the grand facade of the local cathedral, a symbol of colonial Spanish influence in Central America. Muybridge, a pioneering British-American photographer renowned for his groundbreaking motion studies later in the decade, ventured into lesser-explored regions during the 1870s, documenting and architecture with remarkable clarity. Taken during Muybridge's travels through Central America, this imag...
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...