Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation Of Consecutive Phases Of Animal Movements. 1872-1885. By Eadweard Muybridge. Published Under The Auspices Of The University Of Pennsylvania. Plates. The Plates Printed By The Photo-Gravure Company.
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Studies of the relation between photography and other arts include The art of photography, 1839-1989, ed. M. Weaver [exhibition catalogue] (Houston, Canberra and London Royal Academy, 1989); W.M. Freitag, 'Early uses of photography in the history of art', in Art journal (Winter 1979-80), p. 117-23; A. Scharf, Art and photography (1968); The painter and the photograph, ed. Van Deren Coke [exhibition catalogue] (1964).
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Muybridge began photographing the motion of the horse in 1872, and continued this with an improved shutter working at the speed of a thousandth of a second and with banks of cameras from 1877. From 1884 his photographs of human and other animal motion were made at Pennsylvania University - this production of the Photo-gravure Company was one of the most complex in the history of collotype. Muybridge's studies demonstrated that artists' traditional depictions of the positions of moving animals had been untrue to nature.
Many examples of Muybridge's work were bequeathed to Kingston-on-Thames Public Library (see Kingston Museum, Eadweard Muybride: the Kingston Museum bequest, 2004), and may be seen at the Science Museum, London.
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The front endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'E.H. Dring Esq with the esteem of The Author Eadweard Muybridge 10th April 1900'.
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Motion photographs - Photomechanical prints - Pictorial works - United States - 19th century
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Edmund Hunt Dring, previous owner
Dame Laura Knight RA, previous owner, donor
University of Pennsylvania
Photo-Gravure Company (New York)
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Eadweard Muybridge
Movements. Unmarried female (semi-nude) lifting female child (nude) from the ground turning around, 1872-1885
Collotype on white wove paper
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Eadweard Muybridge
Movements. Man (wearing 'pelvis cloth') walking, 1872-1885
Collotype on white wove paper
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Eadweard Muybridge
Movements. Male (nude) playing baseball; batting, 1872-1885
Collotype on white wove paper
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Eadweard Muybridge
Movements. Two males (nude) wrestling Graeco-Roman, 1872-1885
Collotype on white wove paper
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Eadweard Muybridge
Movements. Unmarried female (nude) throwing large handkerchief over her shoulders, 1872-1885
Collotype on white wove paper
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Eadweard Muybridge
Horses. Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare (Annie G) with male rider, 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
Dog; galloping; white racing hound (Maggie), 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
Bactrian camel; galloping, 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
Pigeon; flying, 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
Unmarried female (semi-nude) running and jumping with skipping rope, 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
Male (nude) playing cricket; round arm bowling., 1872-1875
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Eadweard Muybridge
One model (widow, aged 35, nude) pouring bucket of water over other model (unmarried female, nude)., 1872-1875