Plate Number 346. Wrestling, lock
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 31.2 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/16 in.) sheet: 48.4 × 61.3 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
2014.79.370
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s *Plate Number 346. Wrestling, lock* belongs to his groundbreaking 1887 publication *Animal Locomotion*, a monumental series of 781 plates that used sequential photography to analyze human and animal movement. Working at the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge arranged banks of cameras triggered by shutters to capture split-second intervals of action. this collotype print, two wrestlers are frozen mid-hold, their bodies revealing the precise mechanics of balance, tension, and leverage that the naked eye could never perceive. The collotype process allowed Muybridge to rep...
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...