Plate Number 527. A-C: Spanking a child
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 20.6 × 34.6 cm (8 1/8 × 13 5/8 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
2014.79.507
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 527. A-C: Spanking a child* by Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, captures a sequence of three images (A-C) depicting a man spanking a child Measuring 20.6 × 34.6 cm in its image area on a larger 48.26 × 60.96 cm sheet, it exemplifies the British-American photographer's pioneering chronophotography—using multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession to "freeze" movement. Muybridge's work revolutionized visual science and art, bridging photog...
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...