EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
Plate 359 (Man with Bayonet) from “Animal Locomotion “, 1887
collotype
image: 18.1 cm x 40.6 cm
ESTIMATE: $1,000
Originally from England, Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), gained worldwide fame photographing animal and human movement imperceptible to the human eye. He used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. His pioneering work to capture motion with multiple cameras and the zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that predated the filmstrip was instrumental to the development of photography and cinema. His evocative and beguiling pictures were published in the eleven-volume “Animal Locomotion: An Electro Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement,” one of the most important photobooks produced in the 19th century.
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