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Female Turning and Ascending Stairs with a Bucket of Water in Each Hand, Plate No. 104, from Animal Locomotion

Artist Eadweard Muybridge (American, 1830 - 1904)

CultureAmerican | English

Date1887

MediumCollotype

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/8 × 14 1/8 in. (23.2 × 35.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 18 15/16 × 24 1/8 in. (48.1 × 61.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 28 in. (61 × 71.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Bonni Benrubi

Object number84.418

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DescriptionThis is a collotype photograph.

Label TextEadweard Muybridge American, b. England 1830–1904 Plate No. 104, from Animal Locomotion, 1887 Collotype (photographic print) When Eadweard Muybridge published motion studies like this one in the 1880s, many viewers doubted they were real. It looked like the photographer had stopped time, and in a certain sense he had. Using a bank of specialized cameras (as many as 40 at once!) and highly sensitized negatives, he invented a process for capturing people and other animals walking, running, and jumping. Muybridge had been interested in the passage of time since his earliest photographs of Yosemite, which gave a sense of the glacial action that formed its mountains and valleys over the millennia. With this series, he shaved down ever smaller fractions of time, all while laying the groundwork for filmmaking. Gift of Bonni Benrubi 84.418 Exhibition History"Photography Speaks," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, September 4, 2004 - January 2, 2005. "Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.