Plate Number 70. Running
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 24 × 30.2 cm (9 7/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.9 × 60.4 cm (18 7/8 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.121
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge *Plate Number 70.* (1887) is a captivating collotype print from his groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, capturing the fluid motion of a nude male figure in mid-stride. Produced as part of a monumental 781-plate study funded by the University of Pennsylvania this image exemplifies Muybridge's pioneering chronophotography—using a battery of up to 24 cameras triggered sequentially by the subject's movement across a marked. The result? A scientific yet artistic dissection of human gait, debunking centuries-old artistic misconceptions about how bodies truly run. Printed v...
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...