Plate Number 99. Turning and ascending stairs
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 17.55 × 43.1 cm (6 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.) sheet: 48.35 × 61.25 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.150
Art Historical Context
Eadweard Muybridge's *Plate Number 99. Turning and Ascending Stairs* (1887) is a captivating entry from his monumental *Animal Locomotion* series, a pioneering photographic study of human and animal movement. Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge captured thousands of sequential images using multiple cameras triggered in rapid succession, revolutionizing our understanding of motion. This collotype print, part of the Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art, measures 17.55 × 43.1 cm and exemplifies his chronophotographic technique, blending art and science. The im...
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...