Acajutla
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1875
An albumen silver print by Eadweard Muybridge that records the port settlement of Acajutla, made to document its buildings, trenches, and everyday labor for viewers far away.
The image hits you with a deep, raw trench slicing the foreground and a long, shadowed two-story veranda on the right, the scale anchored by tiny human figures that pull the eye into a wide, airy distance.
Taken before his famous motion studies, this work shows Muybridge’s use of photography as documentary evidence—bringing distant ports, infrastructure, and colonial landscapes into public view and helping define modern photographic reportage.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
5 3/8 × 9 3/8" (13.6 × 23.9 cm)
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Credit
Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Accession
182.1964.27
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