Plate Number 523. A: Striking a blow. B, E: Throwing disk. C, F: Heaving a 75-lb. stone. D: Throwing a ball

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This photograph displays a series of sequential images of a figure involved in an athletic pose with a ball. The grid pattern features rows of small black-and-white photographs capturing different moments in the movement sequence. The images show the figure going through an athletic routine with the ball from various angles. The lighting accentuates the form in motion, emphasizing its fluidity and strength.

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Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

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printed, across bottom underneath image: Animal Locomotion. Plate. 523 / Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved; stamped in purple ink across very bottom on sheet: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, / Washington, D.C.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: EM0181

Wikidata ID

Q64147039

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