Plate Number 69. Two men running
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 20.1 × 36.1 cm (7 15/16 × 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 47.7 × 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
2014.79.120
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge’s *Plate Number 69. Two men running* belongs to his groundbreaking 1887 publication *Animal Locomotion*, a monumental study of human and animal movement. Working at the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge employed a battery of cameras triggered in rapid succession to freeze successive instants of motion. The resulting sequences revealed details invisible to the naked eye, such as the precise coordination of limbs during a run, and helped lay the foundation for modern cinema and animation. Printed as a collotype—a fine-screen photographic process prized for its rich tonal ...
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...