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Eadweard J. Muybridge — Emptying a Bucket of Water

Eadweard J. Muybridge

Emptying a Bucket of Water

1887

Part of Muybridge's revolutionary motion studies, this collotype freezes a mundane action to reveal the precise mechanics of human movement invisible to the naked eye.

Medium
collotype

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Eadweard J. Muybridge, Emptying a Bucket of Water, 1887

Part of Muybridge's revolutionary motion studies, this collotype freezes a mundane action to reveal the precise mechanics of human movement invisible to the naked eye.

Medium
collotype
Year
1887
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Photography, Action, Figure, Documentary, 19th Century, Experimental, Motion Study, Sepia, British, Collotype

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