Plate Number 380. Carpenter, sawing a board
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 22.8 × 32.5 cm (9 × 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 48.2 × 61 cm (19 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2015.19.4116
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion capture with *Plate Number 380. Carpenter, saw a board* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print captures a carpenter in mid-action, sawing a board with precise sequential frames that freeze the fluidity of human movement. Part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series massive 11-volume publication of 781 plates—this image exemplifies his pioneering chronophotography, where multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession dissected everyday actions into their elemental phases. Muybridge, a British-American photographer,...
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...