Plate Number 337. Boxing, open hand
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 17.8 × 43.9 cm (7 × 17 5/16 in.) sheet: 47.8 × 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
2014.79.362
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion capture with *Plate Number 337. Boxing, open hand* (1887), a collotype print by Eadweard Muy. This striking image, measuring 17.8 × 43.9 cm, captures a nude male figure mid-boxing pose, his open hand extended in a dynamic gesture. Part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion*—comprising 781 plates—Muybridge freezes a sequence of human movement, revealing the fluidity and anatomy of action invisible to the naked eye. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts in the late 19th century through chronophotography. Using a ba...
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...