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    The Human Figure in Motion
    The Human Figure in Motion
    The Human Figure in Motion
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    The Human Figure in Motion

    By Eadweard Muybridge

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    This is the largest selection ever made from the famous Muybridge sequence high-speed photographs of human motion. Containing 4,789 photographs, it illustrates some 163 different types of action: elderly man lifting log, woman sweeping, woman climbing ladder, men boxing and wrestling, child crawling, man lifting weight, man jumping, and 155 other types of action, some of which are illustrated by as many as 62 different photographs.
    Taken at speeds ranging up to 1/6000th of a second, these photographs show bone and muscle positions against ruled backgrounds. Almost all subjects are undraped, and all actions are shown from three angles: front, rear, and three-quarter view.
    These historic photographs, one of the great monuments of nineteenth-century photography, are reproduced original size, with all the clarity and detail of the originals. As a complete thesaurus of human action, it has never been superseded. Muybridge was a genius of photography, who had unlimited financial, technical, and scientific backing at the University of Pennsylvania. This volume presents the final selection from more than 100,000 negatives made at an expenditure of more than $50,000. It has never been superseded as a sourcebook for artists, students, animators, and art directors.
    "An unparalleled dictionary of action for all artists, photographers." — American Artist.
    "Impressive and valuable collection." — Scientific American.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 27, 2012
    ISBN9780486129914
    The Human Figure in Motion

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      Nineteenth century California photographer Muybridge's collection of time-lapse nude photographs set against a ruled backgound shows men, women, and children moving through ordinary tasks, revealing what the human eye cannot see: the articulation of bone and muscle, balance with shifting weight and flesh, interacting with gravity through the sequence of each movement. Frames were captured at 1/6000th of a second. It remains the classic study for artists, teachers, and animators; and a technological triumph that also captures the beauty of the human form in motion.

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    The Human Figure in Motion - Eadweard Muybridge

    THE HUMAN

    Introduction by Professor Robert Taft, University of Kansas

    The Human Figure in Motion

    Eadweard Muybridge

    COPYRIGHT © 1955 BY DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    All rights reserved.

    This Dover edition, first published in 1955, contains a new selection of plates from the eleven-volume work, Animal Locomotion, published in 1887. Almost all of the illustrations are reproduced the same size as in the original work. The selection of plates was made by Alex Domonkos, Head of the Instruction Department of the Famous Artists School of Westport, Connecticut, and Dr. Wallace Green, Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. The introduction was especially written for this new edition by Professor Robert Taft, University of Kansas.

    The publisher is grateful to Mr. E. Weyhe of Weyhe Galleries for permission to use illustrations from the original set owned by the Weyhe Bookshop. Without the use of this complete set, it is doubtful that a new edition could have been published.

    DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

    This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

    However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

    International Standard Book Number:

    9780486129914

    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-13973

    Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

    20204637

    www.doverpublications.com

    AN INTRODUCTION EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE AND HIS WORK

    Late in 1881, Jean Meissonier, a popular French artist, entertained in his Paris home a group of fellow artists such as had seldom been found within the walls of one room, as a contemporary account stated. Among the guests were such celebrated artists as Gérôme, Léon Bonnat, Detaille, DeNeuville, Jules Goupil, Jalabert, Cabonel, Ridgway Knight, Steinheil, and others. Also present were members from other professions, including the well-known writer and dramatist, Alexander Dumas.

    The small paintings of Meissonier depicting life in the Napoleonic era and of the period contemporary with the artist were noted for their draftsmanship and exactitude in reproducing detail. Some of these paintings represented extensive study of the problem of correctly portraying animals in motion—a problem which seems to have perplexed Meissonier for years.

    The year before the gathering in Meissonier’s home, Leland Stanford of California, while visiting Paris, had shown Meissonier photographs of horses in action taken by Eadweard Muybridge. Thus when the California photographer himself reached Paris, he found that Meissonier had arranged for the group of celebrities to meet him and view his work. Muybridge had by this time sufficiently improved his equipment to permit the projection of transparencies made from his photographs of animals in motion. The projected image produced in his audience an illusion as if the living animal itself were moving.

    There can be little doubt that Muybridge’s exhibition produced a tremendous impression on his audience, and the magnificent entertainment he provided became a principal topic of conversation among many Parisians. Muybridge showed not only his photographs of the horse in motion but also the attitudes of men in the art of wrestling, running, jumping, and other exercises. These, though few in number, the report reads, were most admirably represented, and the warmest applause came from those whose greatest works on the canvas or in marble are those of the human figure.¹

    The Paris showing was by no means the first exhibition of the moving Muybridge photographs, for by late 1881, Muybridge had achieved an

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