Plate Number 356. Kneeling, firing and rising
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 23.6 × 31.7 cm (9 5/16 × 12 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
2014.79.379
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 356.eling, firing and rising (1887) is a captivating entry from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, a project of 781 collotype plates that revolutionized the study of motion. Produced at the University of Pennsylvania, these images captured sequential photographs of humans and animals in action using multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession. Muybridge, a British-born famed for proving in 1872 that a trotting horse lifts all four hooves off the ground, extended his chronophotographic innovations to dissect everyday and athletic movements with sc...
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...