Plate Number 332. Boxing, cross-buttocks
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24.2 × 28.5 cm (9 1/2 × 11 1/4 in.) sheet: 47.85 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.357
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 332., cross-buttocks* (1887) captures a dynamic moment from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, monumental study of movement produced at the University of Pennsylvania. Muybridge, a pioneering photographer, used banks of up to 24 cameras triggered by electromagnetic shutters to freeze human and animal motion in sequential frames. This collotype print depicts two nude male figures mid-action in a boxing maneuver known as "cross-buttocks," showcasing the raw athleticism and anatomy of the human body in precise, scientific detail. Printed via colloty...
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...