Muybridge's Complete human and animal locomotion : all 781 plates from the 1887 Animal locomotion / by Eadweard Muybridge ; introd. to the Dover edition by Anita Ventura Mozley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Contributor:

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Animal locomotion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human locomotion--Pictorial works.

Human locomotion.

Animal locomotion--Pictorial works.

Animal locomotion.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

3 volumes (xlii, 1597 pages) : chiefly illustrations ; 33 cm

Other Title:

Human and animal locomotion

Complete human and animal locomotion.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1979]

Summary:

This is the only complete edition now available of the most definitive photographic study ever made of human and animal life in motion. Painstakingly reproduced from an extraordinarily rare set of original plates and sturdily clothbound, it includes more than 4,500 stopped-action photos of nude and partially nude men, women, and children in a wide variety of physical activities. Another 4,000 stopped-action photos depict animals in motion. Each plate fills a two-page spread, showing the same action from three different angles simultaneously. Essential for painters, sculptors, and photographers, fascinating to all with an interest in the arts and sciences.

Notes:

"An unabridged republication of ... Animal locomotion; an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, originally published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1887; together with the Prospectus and catalogue of plates, published separately by the University earlier in the same year."

"Containing original volumes."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0486237923 :

OCLC:

5447180