Plate Number 487. A: Ascending a step. B: Lifting a handkerchief from the ground. C: Walking. D: Running
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 18 × 42.4 cm (7 1/16 × 16 11/16 in.) sheet: 48.26 × 60.96 cm (19 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.477
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion capture with *Plate Number 487* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This striking collotype print, measuring 18 × 42.4 cm, presents four sequential views of human movement: A) ascending a step, B) lifting a from the ground, C walking, and D). Housed in the National Gallery Art as part of the Corcoran Collection, it exemplifies Muybridge's meticulous documentation of the body's dynamics. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, transformed photography in the late 19th century through his innovative stop-motion experiments. Using banks of cameras ...
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...