Cyanotype Proofs for "Animal Locomotion" Series
SI Neg. 2004-43746. Date: na....Title: "Walking, flirting a fan and turning around.".Series Neg. No. 982.An. Loc. Serial No. 46.Classification: "Women nude.".Muybridge's cyanotypes are working proofs, the contact prints he made from more than 20,000 negatives he took at the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1886 while photographing human and animal subjects in motion from lateral (parallel), front and rear positions. Since the original negatives no longer exist, the cyanotypes provide us with the opportunity to see the pictures Muybridge achieved before he edited and cropped them for publication..From the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History...Credit: Eadweard Muybridge (Smithsonian Institution)
Cyanotype Proofs for "Animal Locomotion" Series
SI Neg. 2004-43746. Date: na....Title: "Walking, flirting a fan and turning around.".Series Neg. No. 982.An. Loc. Serial No. 46.Classification: "Women nude.".Muybridge's cyanotypes are working proofs, the contact prints he made from more than 20,000 negatives he took at the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1886 while photographing human and animal subjects in motion from lateral (parallel), front and rear positions. Since the original negatives no longer exist, the cyanotypes provide us with the opportunity to see the pictures Muybridge achieved before he edited and cropped them for publication..From the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History...Credit: Eadweard Muybridge (Smithsonian Institution)