Plate Number 529. Various poses
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 16.7 × 44.4 cm (6 9/16 × 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.508
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s *Plate Number 529. Various poses* (1887) belongs to his landmark *Animal Locomotion* series, a monumental photographic study of human and animal movement. Working at the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge used banks of cameras triggered in rapid succession to freeze fleeting actions that the naked eye could not perceive. This particular plate presents a grid of sequential images showing a model shifting through different stances, transforming ordinary motion into a precise, almost scientific record. Printed as a collotype—a high-quality photographic process capable of ...
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...