Animal locomotion – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Animal locomotion comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Animal locomotion
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Plate 6 from Eadweard Muybridge's *Animal Locomotion* shows a nude figure captured in the act of walking, one of the sequence studies that set this work apart from ordinary figure photography. Muybridge made these images with banks of cameras triggered in quick succession, a method he had developed in the 1870s to settle questions about how bodies move. The plates were gathered into a published volume in 1887, and this collotype reproduction reflects how the studies were printed and circulated to artists, scientists and the public. It is worth looking closely at the sequence of poses, which reveals movements the eye cannot follow at normal speed.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : collotype. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1880-1890.Collotypes 1880-1890.Motion study photographs Reproductions 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 9046S U.S. Copyright Office. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York, 1887, pl. 6. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. |
| Subjects | Nudes--1880-1890. Walking--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,311 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184161 |
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