Tenaya Canyon from Union Point, Valley of the Yosemite
Medium
albumen print mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 43 x 53.8 cm (16 15/16 x 21 3/16 in.) mount: 62 x 74.8 cm (24 7/16 x 29 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
1997.31.1
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...