Plate Number 557. Local chorea, standing

1887

Eadweard Muybridge

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Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a sequence of movements. The image consists of a series of frames arranged in a grid depicting a figure captured in different stages of movement. The subject stands on a platform with a plain backdrop, and each frame shows a slight progression in movement. This photographic study focuses on exploring the kinetics of the body in space over time.

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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. 557 / Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.; on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower left in red pencil: 87.7.505

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