EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)

Selected Motion Studies

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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)
Selected Motion Studies
30 collotype plates from Animal Locomotion, An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885, published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887. Each with letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright and reproduction limitation printed in the margin.
Varying sizes from 9½ x 123/8in. (24.2 x 31.4cm.) to 17¾ x 5¼in. (44.8 x 13.3cm.) (30)

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The subjects include 4 children walking or crawling, 6 nude or partially clothed male figures engaged in various activities including throwing a football, running, jumping, shoveling dirt and shaving wood, 18 nude or partially clothed female figures engaged in various activities including walking, carrying water, climbing into bed, and 2 animals studies of a horse and a dog.

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