"Bouquet" Galloping, Saddled: Plate 633 from Animal Locomotion (1887)
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1884-86
A collotype print of sequential stop-motion photographs by Eadweard Muybridge that freezes a saddled horse and rider in repeated phases of a gallop to analyze animal locomotion.
A wide strip of closely spaced frames—two rows of side views above a row of rear views—reads like a flipbook, each slightly shifted so the horse and rider appear to stride forward while revealing the startling moment when all four hooves leave the ground.
Part of Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion studies, this work helped birth motion-picture sequencing and reshaped scientific and artistic ideas about movement by making invisible phases of motion visible.
Medium
Collotype
Dimensions
7 3/16 × 16 7/16" (18.3 × 41.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Accession
167.1937
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