Plate Number 24. Walking with shoes on
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 20.2 × 36.5 cm (7 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.) sheet: 48 × 60.4 cm (18 7/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.76
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 24. with Shoes On* (1887) captures a pivotal moment in the history of photography and scientific visualization. Part of Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion*, this collotype print freezes a human figure mid-stride, revealing the intricate mechanics of movement. Muybridge, a British-born photographer working in America, became famous for using banks of up to 24 cameras triggered sequentially to dissect motion, debunking myths like whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. This plate exemplifies Muybridge's fusion of art and sc...
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...