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Eadweard Muybridge, artist, photographer
English, 1830 - 1904
Animal Locomotion, plate 153 from the book Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements . Commenced 1872-Completed 1885 by Eadweard Muybridge... (Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania, 1887), 1872 - 1885
collotype
14.8 x 44.4 cm (image); 48 x 60.3 cm (sheet)
Museum Purchase, Emmett Solomon Memorial Fund 1992.39

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Artist Biography: Born Edward James Muggeridge 9 April 1830 in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey.To California 1850. Returned to California from several years in England as photographerin 1867. Changedname, became landscape photographer until ca. 1877. Experiments in motion begun 1870*s. 1875-1877 in Panama & Guatemala after killing wife*s lover. 1880*s to University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Worked with Eakins on motion studies. Retired to England 1889. Died 8 May 1904 in Kingston.

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