Plate Number 449. Feeding a dog
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16 × 43.2 cm (6 5/16 × 17 in.) sheet: 47.3 × 60.3 cm (18 5/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
2019.131.7
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion photography with *Plate Number 449. a Dog* (1887), a collotype print by Eadweard Muy. This captivating image captures a sequence of a nude woman bending to feed a dog, freezing everyday motion into 12 precise frames across a panoramic sheet measuring 47.3 × 60.3 cm. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts through his chronophotographic experiments, proving that sequential images could dissect animal and human movement like never before. Part of the monumental *Animal Locomotion* series—comprising 781 plates produced with ...
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...