Plate Number 329. Boxing
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 17 × 45.5 cm (6 11/16 × 17 15/16 in.) sheet: 48.4 × 61.3 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.354
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 329. Boxing* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of his monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, captures a dynamic of two boxers in action across 17 × 45.5 cm of vivid imagery. Muybridge, a pioneering British-American photographer, used a battery of up to 24 cameras triggered sequentially by the subjects' movements, freezing split-second moments that the human eye could scarcely perceive. The collotype medium—a finely detailed printing process—allowed for precise reproduction of these hig...
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...