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Eadweard Muybridge
A: Walking. B: Ascending a Step. C: Throwing the disk. D: Using a Shovel. E,F: Using a Pick1885, printed 1887

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Black and white motion study photograph, grid of 36 sequential frames showing a nude figure performing a sweeping motion with a long-handled tool

Eadweard Muybridge, A: Walking. B: Ascending a Step. C: Throwing the disk. D: Using a Shovel. E,F: Using a Pick, 1885, printed 1887, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Eadweard Muybridge
England, active United States, 1830-1904
Title
A: Walking. B: Ascending a Step. C: Throwing the disk. D: Using a Shovel. E,F: Using a Pick
Place Made
England
Date Made
1885, printed 1887
Medium
Collotype
Dimensions
Image: 11 1/4 × 10 1/8 in. (28.58 × 25.72 cm) Primary support: 18 1/2 × 23 1/4 in. (46.99 × 59.06 cm) Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.88 × 71.12 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.96
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Brougher, Kerry. Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996.