Plate Number 303. Picking up a ball and throwing it

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence depicting motion capture. The full-description reveals a series of black-and-white images arranged in two rows, illustrating the progression of a figure performing an action involving bending down, picking up an object, and proceeding to throw it. The sequence captures different stages of this motion against a backdrop of vertical lines. Light and shadow are utilized to highlight the form and motion in each frame, creating a cohesive narrative of physical activity across the series of images.

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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. 303 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.289


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