Plate Number 185. Hopping on left foot
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 29.1 cm (10 1/16 × 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 47.8 × 60.3 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.229
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 185. Hopping on Left Foot* by Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print, measuring 25.5 × 29.1 cm, is part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series a 19th-century scientific endeavor that captured human and animal movement through sequential photographs. Using a battery of up to 24 cameras triggered by electro-mechanical devices, Muybridge froze everyday actions—like this dynamic hop on one foot—challenging the naked eye's perception and proving myths wrong, such as the idea that all four horse le...
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...