Church of San Francisco, and Post-Office, 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 Jeffrey A. Lichtenberg in honor of his parents Laura and Harold Lichtenberg
Accession Number
1999.97.26
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step back to 1875 Guatemala City with Eadwe Muybridge's striking photoprint, *Church of San Francisco, Post-Office, Guatemala published in 1877 This image beautifully frames the elegant colonial facade of the Church of San beside the practical Post-Office, capturing a moment of urban harmony where sacred architecture meets everyday civic function. Muybridge, a British-born photographer who later revolutionized motion studies with his iconic horse gallop sequences, was then documenting the landscapes and cities of Central America during extensive travels. As one of the era's pioneering photogr...
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...