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Eadweard  Muybridge:   Animal Locomotion Plate # 629
 
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Description
Title: Animal Locomotion Plate # 629
Style: Modern
Medium: Photographs, Calotype
Year: 1887
Size: height - 5.5 in, width - 18 in, depth - 0 in cm
Markings: unsigned, Unsigned, plate number and title on recto below print
Estimate: from US$1,000 to US$1,500

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Paper size 19 x 24 inches From the series Animal Locomotion. Plate #629
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      Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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      Item Location: New Jersey, USA
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Biography & Links
Eadweard Muybridge Biography
1830
Born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston upon Thames, England.
1855
Arrived in San Francisco, starting his career as a publisher's agent and bookseller.
1867
Began to build his reputation with photos of Yosemite and San Francisco.
1868
Commissioned to photograph one of the U.S. Army's expeditions.
1874
Still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; he then followed and killed the Major with a gunshot. He was aquitted after a plea of instanity resulting from an injury due to a stage coach accident.
1877
Returned to the United States after photographing Central America.

Started to experiment with photographing motion in response to former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner's question of whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground at the same time during a gallop.
1878
Successfully photographed a horse in fast motion.
1894
Returned to his native England.
1904
Died on May 8 in Kingston upon Thames while living at the home of his cousin Catherine Smith.
Selected Exhibitions
1998
Men in Motion, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2004
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2005
Men, Women and Animals, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2007
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (solo)
2008
Ton Peek Photography, Pa Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
2009
Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie, Muchen, Germany
2010
25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O’Connor Fine Arts, Lambertville, NJ
2010
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, England

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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