Animal Locomotion, Females (Semi Nude) & Children, Plate 459, Stepping on Chair Reaching up and Descending, 1872–1885
MediumCollotype
Image dimensions48 x 61 cm
About the workThe groundbreaking British photographer Eadweard Muybridge attests to the close relationship between photography and film. He was interested in the motion sequences of humans and animals and became one of the co-founders of “chronophotography”. To settle the question of whether a galloping horse lifts all of its hooves off the ground at the same time, he set up twelve cameras. The animal itself set off the cameras in sequence by activating trip wires as it ran past. Numerous series based on the same principle followed. Muybridge later marketed the images in the book “Animal Locomotion”, in which the examples shown here can also be found.
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 acquired as a gift from Kicken Berlin in memory of Rudolf Kicken
Inventory numberF.2019.440
