until Sunday October 04 2015

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ANIMAL LOCOMOTION

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was one of the pioneers of motion photography. Using a complex experimental camera setup and innovative camera technology he succeeded for the first time in the history of photography, to capture the motion of a galloping horse in a series of individual photographs.

In 1887 he published Animal Locomotion, a seminal portfolio containing motion studies of humans and animals in 781 sequences. It is one of the milestones in the history of photography and to this day serves as a major reference point in science and art.
The display features a selection of 22 plates from Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion from the holdings of the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation.