[Woman Opening Parasol]
Eadweard Muybridge|The Photo-Gravure Company
1883–86, printed 1887
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Medium
Collotype
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1938
Accession Number
38.82.1
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge|The Photo-Gravure Company · 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...