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Home : Picturing the Process : Capturing Motion

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Eadweard Muybridge

British, b, 1830

Animal Locomotion, Plate 580

1887
collotype


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Animals in Motion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Muscular Actions, by Eadweard Muybridge (1907)
Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture, Gordon Hendricks (1975)
Horses and Other Animals in Motion: 45 Classic Photographic Sequences (1985)

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Muybridge in motion

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a donation from PhotoWings.

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