Plate Number 221. Stooping and lifting a 12-lb. basket to head
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21.75 × 34.3 cm (8 9/16 × 13 1/2 in.) sheet: 48.5 × 61.2 cm (19 1/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.260
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 221. Stooping and lifting a 12-lb. basket to head* (1887) captures a pivotal moment in the history of photography and scientific visualization. Part of Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, this collotype print freezes a human figure mid-motion—bending to lift a weighted basket onto the head—in a sequence that dissects everyday biomechanics. Produced just two years after his famous horse-gallop studies proved that all four hooves leave the ground, this work reflects Muybridge's obsession with deconstructing movement, blending art, science, an...
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...