Plate Number 88. Ascending stairs

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of motion studies showing a sequence of actions. The image consists of a grid of multiple frames capturing detailed movements in a sequential manner. Each row captures a different perspective: side view, front view, and back view, highlighting the transition of descending a few steps. The consistent background of a grid pattern assists in measuring the motion and the progression of action is captured frame by frame along each row.

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Provenance

Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia, PA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired by NGA, 2014.

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Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 88 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.88

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