Plate Number 342. Boxing, open hand
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16.3 × 44.5 cm (6 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 48.4 × 61.2 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.367
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion capture with *Plate Number 342. Boxing, open* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887 as part of his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series This collotype print, measuring 16.3 × 44.5 cm, a male figure mid-boxing stance with an open hand, in sequential frames that reveal the fluidity of human movement. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts through chronophotography—using multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession to dissect motion, bridging photography and early film. Printed via collotype, a precise photomechanic...
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...