Plate Number 220. Stooping, and lifting handkerchief and turning
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 15.7 × 45.4 cm (6 3/16 × 17 7/8 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
Edward E. MacCrone Fund
Accession Number
2019.131.3
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 220.oping, and lifting handkerchief turning* (1887) is a entry from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series a monumental 11-volume publication of 781 collotype plates. A British-born photographer who settled in America, Muybridge pioneered high-speed photography in the 1870s, famously proving that all four hooves of a galloping horse leave the groundsparking a revolution in our understanding of motion. Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, this series expanded his animal studies to include nude and draped human figures performing everyday action...
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...