"Pandora" Jumping a Hurdle, Bareback; Rider Nude: Plate 647 from Animal Locomotion (1887)
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1884-86
A collotype photographic sequence by Eadweard Muybridge that breaks a horse-and-rider leap into a series of stills to study and reveal the precise phases of motion.
Rows of repeated frames read like a silent flipbook, each frozen instant revealing surprising rhythms—most strikingly the moment the horse is airborne—against a plain backdrop that focuses attention on form and timing.
By freezing and arranging successive instants, Muybridge made visible what the eye misses, founding a visual language for motion that influenced science, animation, and the birth of cinema.
Medium
Collotype
Dimensions
6 3/8 × 16 7/8" (16.2 × 42.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Accession
170.1937
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