Plate Number 745. Raccoon walking and turning around
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 19.7 × 38 cm (7 3/4 × 14 15/16 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
2014.79.670
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate Number 745: Raccoon Walking and Turning Around* (1887), a captivating collotype print by pioneering photographer Eadweardbridge. Capturing a raccoon's fluid motion in sequential frames, this image is part of Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series, produced at the University of Pennsylvania. At 19.7 × 38 cm, the image reveals the animal's gait and pivot with scientific precision, inviting viewers to trace the subtle shifts in limbs and posture. Muybridge's innovation lay in his use of multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession—up to 24 per second—to "freeze" mo...
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...