Pictures from the Lava Beds, from "The Last of the Modocs," Harper's Weekly
Eadweard Muybridge
June 21, 1873
Medium
wood engraving on newsprint
Dimensions
image/sheet: 38.74 × 26.99 cm (15 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)
Accession Number
2016.117.286
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...