Plate Number 341. Boxing, open hand
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21 × 36.8 cm (8 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.) sheet: 47.7 × 60.35 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.366
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion captured in stillness with *Plate Number 341. Boxing, open hand* by Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print, measuring 21 × 36.8 cm, is part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series a 781-plate study that revolutionized how we understand movement. Here, a male figure demonstrates a dynamic boxing pose with an open, frozen in sequential frames that reveal the fluid mechanics of the human body in action. Muybridge, a pioneering photographer of the late 19th century, used multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession to dissec...
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...