Emptying a Bucket of Water
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
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Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, in honor of Evan H. Turner
Accession Number
1992.220
Tags
About this artwork
Eadweard J. Muybridge initially used horses to capture motion as separate slices of time faster than the human eye could perceive them, then moved on to study other animal and human movements. Everyday activities, like emptying a bucket of water, were broken down and sequenced back-to-back. This series was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and intended to diagnose dysfunction in human movement by allowing each consecutive action to be studied in isolation. The university’s desire fo...