English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, 1830-1904, was a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped to settle a bet for Leland Stanford by providing photographic proof that when galloping, a horse momentarily lifts all of its legs off of the ground. Muybridge continued his quest to fully catalogue aspects of human and animal movement, shooting hundreds of nude or draped subjects engaged in activities such as running, walking, boxing, fencing a.o.
Taschen, 2010; 872 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; L; hb
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