Mirror Lake, Valley of the Yosemite
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
42.8 x 54.3 cm (16 7/8 x 21 3/8 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.724.2
Tags
LakesMountainsLandscapes
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge|Bradley and Rulofson|Henry W. Bradley · 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...