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Animal Locomotion, plate 4. From the series Animal Locomotion 1872-1885 Plates University of Pennsylvania
Animal Locomotion, plate 4. From the series Animal Locomotion 1872-1885 Plates University of Pennsylvania
Animal Locomotion, plate 4. From the series Animal Locomotion 1872-1885 Plates University of Pennsylvania
Photo repro: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Animal Locomotion, plate 4. From the series Animal Locomotion 1872-1885 Plates University of Pennsylvania

by Eadweard Muybridge
Artist (Storbritannien, 1830 - 1904)
Alternate Title
  • Djur i rörelse, plåt 4. Ur serien Djur i rörelse 1872-1885. Plåtar University of Pennsylvania
Date1887
DimensionsBildmått: 35 × 49,5 cm Pappersmått: 48 × 60,4 cm
Classification
Credit LineDonation 2005 från Pontus Hultén
Object NumberMOM/2005/514
CollectionsThe Pontus Hultén Collection
The artwork is not on display
Description 1878 tog Eadweard Muybridge ett antal bilder av en häst i rörelse. En affärsman och hästälskare hade hyrt in fotografen i syfte att genom fotografiska studier, vetenskapligt avgöra frågan om huruvida en häst i trav någon gång lättade med samtliga hovar från marken. Nu kunde man för första gången, med hjälp av flera kameror som utlöstes då hästen sprang förbi, se det som inget mänskligt öga någonsin sett; alla hovarna var stundtals i luften. Bilderna kom att följas av många fotografier av djur och människor i rörelse, och den nya visuella kunskapen utnyttjades flitigt av konstnärer, däribland Giacomo Balla. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs of a horse in motion. A businessman and horse-lover had commissioned Muybridge to perform a scientific photographic study of horse gaits to determine whether all four feet were off the ground at the same time while trotting. For the first time, using a line of cameras with shutters that were triggered as the horse ran past, it was possible for the human eye to see that all hooves were airborne at one point. These pictures were followed by many studies of animals and humans in motion, and this new visual knowledge was used frequently by artists at the time, including Giacomo Balla. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Text tryckt på framsidan av konstverket: "ANIMAL LOCOMATION. PLATE 4 Copyright, 1887, by Eadweard Muybridge. All rights reserved." Selected exhibition history Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dance machines Bibliography Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in Motion [183 Plates (Containing Over 4000Individual Photographs From The Famous Muybridge Collection Illustrating Horses, Dogs, Cats, Lions, Kangaroos, Deer - 28 Others]; ed. Lewis S. Brown, Department of Art and Exhibition, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, [1957], Mineola, New York [Ny tr.?]. Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion [196 Plates (containing over 4700 indivudual photographs from the famous Muybriudge collection, chosen for their value to Artists, Docktors, and Researchers]; Dover Publications, INC., New York [1955], New York [ Ny tr. ?]. Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement: ed. Phillip Prodger with an essay by Tom Gunning, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in Associaion with Oxford University Press, 2003, s. 113-272. Gordon Hendricks, Eadweard Muybridge. The Father of the Motion Picture: Dover Publications, INC., Mineola, New York 2001. Paul Hill: Eadweard Muybridge, London 2001. Eadweard Muybridge: [utställningskatalog: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, Museum Bochum, Kunsthalle Basel, Kulturhaus Graz], Stuttgart 1976. Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872-1882: Stanford University Museum of Art 1972. Kevin MacDonnell: Eadweard Muybridge. The man who invented the moving picture, Little, Brown and Company, Boston / Toronto 1972