Plate Number 162. Jumping, standing broad jump
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 13.3 × 46.2 cm (5 1/4 × 18 3/16 in.) sheet: 48.2 × 61.1 cm (19 × 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2015.19.4105
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s *Plate Number 162. Jumping, standing broad jump* belongs to his landmark 1887 publication *Animal Locomotion*, a monumental study of human and animal movement. Working at the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge employed banks of cameras triggered in rapid succession to freeze motion too fleeting for the eye to register The resulting sequences transformed both scientific inquiry and visual culture, laying groundwork for the invention of cinema. Printed as a collotype—a process prized for its rich tonal range and fidelity—this long, horizontal sheet presents twelve consec...
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...