Plate Number 97. Turning to ascend stairs, with a pitcher and a goblet in hands
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 18.45 × 40.25 cm (7 1/4 × 15 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
2014.79.148
Art Historical Context
Step into the pioneering world of motion photography with *Plate Number 97. Turning to ascend, with a pitcher and goblet in hands* Eadweard Muy, created in 1887. This collotype print, part of Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion*, captures a nude female figure in mid-motion as she gracefully turns to climb stairs, balancing a pitcher in one hand and a gob in the other. Measuring 18.45 × 40.25 cm, it exemplifies the British-American photographer's obsession with dissecting human movement, sparked by his earlier horse-gallop experiments that proved all four hooves leave the ground—a rev...
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...