The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography. With a Study on Animal Mechanics Founded On Anatomy and the Revelations Of The Camera. Executed and Published Under The Auspices of Leland Stanford
Eadweard Muybridge
1881-1882
Medium
bound volume with 107 plates, including 5 heliotypes
Dimensions
book: 31.5 x 26 x 4.8 cm (12 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2008.11.2
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...