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Plate Number 550. Locomotor ataxia, walking. A: Arms down. B: Arms up. (from “Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements”)

Eadweard Muybridge

Plate Number 550. Locomotor ataxia, walking. A: Arms down. B: Arms up. (from “Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements”)
1887
Collotype in a frame built by Sol LeWitt, ca. 1968

Image size: 8 15/16 × 13 3/8 inches (22.7 × 33.9 cm)
Paper size: 19 × 24 inches (48.26 × 60.96 cm)
Frame (by Sol LeWitt) size: 20 3/4 x 25 inches (52.7 x 63.5 cm)
(Inventory #36816)

LeWitt admired Muybridge’s studies of motion and was greatly influenced by both the imagery and the techniques Muybridge used. This particular example of Muybridge’s was framed by LeWitt in a frame of his own making and was given as a gift to a colleague/friend.

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