Jumping; Standing Broad Jump (Shoes), Plate 163 from the book Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
Eadweard Muybridge, Jumping; Standing Broad Jump (Shoes), Plate 163 from the book Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1887, collotype, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Photography Council, public domain, 2011.1.2
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- Title
Jumping; Standing Broad Jump (Shoes), Plate 163 from the book Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
- Related Titles
book title (original language): Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
original language: Jumping; Standing Broad Jump (Shoes)
- Artist
- Date
1887
- Medium
collotype
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 9 1/4 in x 12 5/8 in; sheet: 18 11/16 in x 23 5/8 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
British
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Photography Council
- Accession Number
2011.1.2
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
During the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge became the first photographer to experiment with motion studies of animals and humans. By the 1880s, improved technology helped him create tens of thousands of stop-action photographs of a wide range of living creatures. These images offered scientists, physicians, and even artists a new understanding of movements that were too fast for the naked eye to register. In Muybridge's 788-print Animal Locomotion series, created in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, nude and nearly nude studies of women and men offer unfettered, often lyrical, and surprisingly modern views of human form and gesture.
- Exhibitions
2012 Emerging: New Photography Acquisitions Portland Art Museum
2012 Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body Portland Art Museum
