Plate Number 67. Running
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 15.7 × 45.4 cm (6 3/16 × 17 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.6 × 60.2 cm (18 3/4 × 23 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.118
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s “Plate Number 67. Running,” created in 1887, belongs to his landmark “Animal Locomotion” series. The collotype print records a human figure moving across a measured grid, presenting successive instants of a stride in a single horizontal sequence. Muybridge’s methodical combined photography with scientific observation, revealing phases of motion invisible to the unaided eye. Printed on a sheet nearly twice the size of the image itself, the work highlights the crisp detail and tonal range possible with the collotype process. The elongated format invites viewers to trace the...
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...