Plate Number 34. Walking and carrying a 15-lb. basket on head, hands raised
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16.8 x 41.8 cm (6 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 48.5 x 61.2 cm (19 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.105
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...