Plate Number 352. "Shoulder," "order" and "carry arms"
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24.6 × 30.3 cm (9 11/16 × 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 48.5 × 61.3 cm (19 1/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.375
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion photography with Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 352. "Shoulder," "order" and "carry arms"* (1887), a captivating collotype print from the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection. This image captures sequential poses of a figure executing precise military rifle drills—shifting from "shoulder arms" to "order arms" and "carry arms." Muybridge, a British-American photographer famed for settling the bet on whether a galloping horse's hooves all leave the ground, revolutionized visual perception through his chronophotographic experiments. Part of h...
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...