DETAILS
- Artist
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Photography
- Culture
- America
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
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THE ARTIST
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneering English photographer, revolutionized our understanding of motion with his groundbreaking chronophotography and early motion-picture projections.
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