Animal Locomotion Plate 617: Nude Male on White Horse
Date1887
Artist
Eadweard Muybridge
(British born American photographer, 1830–1904)
Illustration CitationPlate from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, Philadelphia. Published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, 1887.
MediumCollotype
Dimensionsimage: 8 3/8 × 12 7/8 in. (21.3 × 32.7 cm)
sheet: 14 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (36.2 × 50.2 cm)
sheet: 14 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (36.2 × 50.2 cm)
Credit LineFound in collection, 2019
Object number2019-46
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextMuybridge developed new photographic technology to create his ground-breaking study of animal locomotion. Once published, his book transformed artists' (and non-artists') understanding of how people and animals move.
