Plate Number 371. Acrobat, vertical "press up"
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 17.5 × 41.8 cm (6 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 48 × 61 cm (18 7/8 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.392
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate Number 371. Acrobat, verticalpress up"* (1887), a captivating collotype print by pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. sequential image captures an acrobat mid-motion, executing a dynamic vertical press-up, frozen in a series of precise poses across its panoramic 17.5 × 41.8 cm image area. Part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion*, it showcases human athleticism with scientific rigor, transforming the body into a study of grace and power. Muybridge, a British-American innovator, revolutionized photography in the late 19th century by using banks of cameras triggere...
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...