Eadweard Muybridge
08 Sep 2010 - 16 Jan 2011
Eadweard Muybridge
Fencing. (Movements. Male). Plate 349, 1887 1887
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Museum Purchase, 87.7.334
Fencing. (Movements. Male). Plate 349, 1887 1887
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Museum Purchase, 87.7.334
One of photography's early pioneers, Eadweard Muybridge is be subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain. Bringing together around 150 works, this exhibition explores how British born Muybridge documented the landscape and people of America when the 'New World' was first emerging as a modern country.
Focusing on the period of rapid technological and cultural change from 1870 to 1904, the exhibition will be centred around Muybridge's celebrated experimental works showing animals and humans in motion. These photographs used new mechanisms that Muybridge invented himself to freeze the image of a galloping horse or a somersaulting acrobat. This revolutionary motion-capture technique produced iconic images that have profoundly influenced generation upon generation of photographers, artists and filmmakers.
Organised by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Focusing on the period of rapid technological and cultural change from 1870 to 1904, the exhibition will be centred around Muybridge's celebrated experimental works showing animals and humans in motion. These photographs used new mechanisms that Muybridge invented himself to freeze the image of a galloping horse or a somersaulting acrobat. This revolutionary motion-capture technique produced iconic images that have profoundly influenced generation upon generation of photographers, artists and filmmakers.
Organised by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC