Plate Number 322. Lifting and letting down two 50-lb. dumbbells

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a series of black-and-white photographs showing a person lifting weights. There are two rows of twelve images each, displaying different stages of the lifting process. The background has a grid pattern. The photos document the movement from a bent position on the ground to a full arm extension above the head and back down. The lighting accentuates the figure's contours and poses, similar to early motion photography for scientific and artistic studies.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collotype

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

  • Dimensions

    image: 17 × 43.4 cm (6 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.2 × 61.3 cm (19 × 24 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.79.347

  • Series Title

    Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

printed, lower center underneath image in black ink: ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE. 322 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.307

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