Plate Number 447. Woman taking a water jar from the shoulder of another woman
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 18.2 × 42.6 cm (7 3/16 × 16 3/4 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
2014.79.444
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 447. Woman taking a water jar the shoulder of another woman* (1887) is a captivating entry from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, at the University of Pennsylvania. Muybridge, a pioneering photographer captured sequences of human and animal movement using banks of up to 24 cameras triggered by electromagnetic shutters, freezing everyday actions into precise, analytical frames. This collotype print—image 18.2 × 42.6 cm on a larger 48.4 × 61.2 cm sheet—showcases two women in a fluid, collaborative motion, highlighting the grace and coordination of th...
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...