Plate Number 340. Boxing, open hand
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 32.5 cm (9 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 48.4 × 61 cm (19 1/16 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.365
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion capture with *Plate Number 340. Boxing, open hand* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print is part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series a pioneering study of human and animal movement using sequential photography. Capturing a nude male figure in dynamic boxing poses—mid-punch with an open hand—the image freezes a rapid sequence of actions, revealing the fluidity and anatomy of athletic motion invisible to the naked eye. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual science in the late 19th ce...
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...