Santa María Volcano, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
1875-1876
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 13.5 × 23.5 cm (5 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.) mount: 25 × 33.5 cm (9 13/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, by exchange: Duncan Phillips)
Accession Number
2015.19.5245
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...