Plate Number 512. Contortions on the rings
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 17.65 × 44 cm (6 15/16 × 17 5/16 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
2015.19.4122
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion capture with *Plate Number 512. Contortions the Rings* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This striking collotype print captures a gymnast in mid-performance on the rings, showcasing extreme flexibility and athletic prowess through Muybridge's signature sequential photography. Part of his monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, it freezes a dynamic moment into 12 precise frames across a vast sheet measuring 48.2 × 61 cm, inviting viewers to trace the body's fluid distortions. Muybridge, a British-American photographer, revolutionized visual arts in...
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...