Bringing in the Day's Coffee Harvest, San Isidro
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1875
An 1875 albumen silver print in which Eadweard Muybridge documents a group of coffee workers bringing in the day’s harvest, aiming for observational clarity and compositional order.
You are struck by the tableau-like grouping—workers gathered around baskets of coffee beneath a thatched shelter, their varied postures and direct gazes rendered with crisp, photographic detail.
The photograph sits at the intersection of 19th-century travel and ethnographic photography—bringing scenes of colonial labor and distant landscapes into public view—and anticipates Muybridge’s broader interest in using the camera to study human activity.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
5 3/8 × 9 1/16" (13.7 × 23.1 cm)
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Credit
Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Accession
182.1964.101
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