Plate Number 93. Ascending stairs
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 21.8 × 35.5 cm (8 9/16 × 14 in.) sheet: 47.8 × 60.4 cm (18 13/16 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.144
Art Historical Context
Step into the groundbreaking world of motion photography with *Plate Number 93. Ascending Stairs* by Eadweard Muybridge, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of Muybridge's monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, captures a sequence of a nude figure gracefully ascending stairs, freezing everyday movement into 12 precise frames. Muybridge, a pioneering British-American photographer, revolutionized visual science after proving in the 1870s that a trotting horse lifts all four hooves off the ground—sparking his lifelong quest to dissect motion through chronophotography. Printed via colloty...
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...