Plate Number 288. Baseball, error
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 26.5 × 28.9 cm (10 7/16 × 11 3/8 in.) sheet: 48.5 × 60.9 cm (19 1/8 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.315
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion capture with Eadweardbridge's *Plate Number 288., error* (1887), a collotype print from his seminal *Animal Locomotion* series This 26.5 × 28.9 cm image freezes a baseball player mid-action—poised to catch but committing an "error," likely fumbling the ball. Muybridge, a pioneering British-American photographer, captured these sequential frames using multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession, dissecting human movement like never before. Produced as part of an 11-volume set of 781 plates, this work emerged from Muybridge's experiments begun in ...
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...