Plate Number 178. Stepping on and over a trestle

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of sequential images capturing a person's movement. The image shows two rows of grid-lined backdrop with a sequence of a nude figure stepping over a stool. Each frame captures a distinct position as the figure progresses through the act of stepping. The lighting highlights the figure against the backdrop. The composition is methodical, almost scientific in its documentation of movement.

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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. 178 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.178


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