Woman Dancing: Plate 194 from Animal Locomotion (1887)
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1884-86
A gelatin silver print that sequences dozens of small photographs of a woman dancing, made by Muybridge to break human movement into discrete phases for scientific and artistic study.
Rows of small, high-contrast frames show the same white-garbed figure shifting through a sinuous dance, her gestures captured like stop-motion steps against a dark, gridlike backdrop.
Part of Muybridge’s pioneering Animal Locomotion series, this work helped establish photographic motion analysis and anticipated both cinema and modern studies of biomechanics and animation.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 7/16 × 13 1/8" (18.9 × 33.4 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Accession
206.1937
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