Plate Number 66. Running
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 22 × 35.1 cm (8 11/16 × 13 13/16 in.) sheet: 48 × 60.9 cm (18 7/8 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.117
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s *Plate Number 66. Running* (1887) belongs to his landmark series *Animal Locomotion*, a systematic study of human and animal movement. Working at the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge used banks of cameras triggered in rapid succession to freeze successive instants of motion on film. The resulting grids of images revealed details invisible to the naked eye, reshaping both scientific understanding and artistic representation of the body in action. Printed as a collotype—a high-quality photographic process prized for its rich tonal range—this sheet measures just over 18...
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...