Plate Number 250. Rising from chair, stooping and lifting handkerchief
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 28.5 × 25.5 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.281
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 250: from Chair, Stooping and Lifting Handkerchief* (1887) is a captivating snapshot from his seminal *Animal Locomotion* series, comprising 781 plates produced at the University of Pennsylvania. This collotype print freezes a sequence of human movement: a nude model rises from a chair, stoops low, and lifts a handkerchief in a fluid, everyday action. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, pioneered high-speed photography in the 1870s, using banks of up to 24 cameras triggered by electro-mechanical devices to dissect motion frame by frame. The plate's his...
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...