Animal Locomotion

Eadweard Muybridge

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Object Label

Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential photographs of human and animal bodies in motion were hugely influential on artists and scientists alike, and served as forerunners for what became known as ”motion pictures.” This was the first time that such scenes had been captured by a camera in such detail. Many of the images were published as a portfolio in 1887. The quality and originality of the photographs overcame initial concerns about the possible obscenity of so much male and female nudity in a single publication.

Caption

Eadweard Muybridge (British, 1830–1904). Animal Locomotion, 1872–1885, copyrighted 1887. Photogravure, sheet: 19 1/4 x 24 in. (48.9 x 61 cm) image: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (21.6 x 34.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Jack Boulton, 1989.30.28. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Photography

Title

Animal Locomotion

Date

1872–1885, copyrighted 1887

Medium

Photogravure

Classification

Photograph

Dimensions

sheet: 19 1/4 x 24 in. (48.9 x 61 cm) image: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (21.6 x 34.3 cm)

Inscriptions

Printed below plate: "Animal Locomotion. Plate. 340 / Copyright, 1887. by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved."

Credit Line

Anonymous gift in memory of Jack Boulton

Accession Number

1989.30.28

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