Animal Locomotion, Plate 388
In this black-and-white sequential image from the famous "Animal Locomotion" series, Muybridge presents three horizontal rows of 12 images showing a male nude figure shoveling dirt. Captured in various views, the sequence describes the physical movement and range of motion involved in simple actions.
Eadweard Muybridge
The 19th- and 20th-century Photography Collection
A collection of 1,008 late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century photographic works from Eadweard Muybridge, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibovitz, Andy Warhol, Yeondoo Jung, master fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Richard Avedon, and others.
1887
13.5" x 19.5"
Collotype
On View