Horse and Man 馬と人間

MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard マイブリッジ, エドワード

MUYBRIDGE’s series of stop-motion photographs were experiments that revealed that paintings of galloping horses with all four feet outstretched and off the ground were illusions. When horses are galloping, the legs off the ground were always bent. To take these photographs, he set up twenty-four cameras, with each shutter triggered by a thread connected to it, so that the photographs were taken in sequence as the horse passed in front of the cameras. He also used the same technique to photograph humans and other animals. MUYBRIDGEM not only analyzed motion. He also invented the basic structure of a series of images by which moving pictures are shot. He later pursued his studies of human and animal motion as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Series title: The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
Title: Horse and Man
Original title: Horse and Man
Artist Name: MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard
Material / Technique: Albumen paper
Dimensions: 160x224mm
Accession number: 20006015
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