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Collections

Eadweard Muybridge
Animal Locomotion (Man On Horse Over Hurdles)1881

On view: Resnick Pavilion
Sepia-toned photograph: eleven small rounded images mounted on dark card stock, each showing a horse and rider in various stages of motion, rendered as dark silhouettes

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion (Man On Horse Over Hurdles), 1881, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Eadweard Muybridge
Title
Animal Locomotion (Man On Horse Over Hurdles)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1881
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (13.97 × 23.02 cm) Primary support: 5 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (13.97 × 23.02 cm) Secondary support: 10 1/16 × 13 1/8 in. (25.56 × 33.34 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.1510
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.