Plate Number 266. Turning and changing position while on the ground
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16 × 45.2 cm (6 5/16 × 17 13/16 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
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.293
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 266. Turning and changing position while on the ground* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, captures a sequence of a nude male figure dynamically twisting and shifting on the ground. Measuring 16 × 45.2 cm in its image area, it exemplifies the artist's innovative use of multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession—up to 12 or 24 per second—to freeze and dissect human movement, revolutionizing how we understand the body in action. Mu...
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...