Chronophotography.

Author	Eadweard Muybridge
Title	"Animal locomotion. Plate 624 'Daisy' galloping saddled"
Technique	Collotype (vintage print)
Place	Pennsilvania (United States)
Date	circa 1887
Register	06422

Vintage photographic print, numbered, of a chronophotography made by Eadweard Muybridge, the English photographer, who carried out his professional work in the United States. In 1872 he was commissioned by the American billionaire Leland Standford to photograph a horse galloping to demonstrate whether, in the course of its run, the horse did not touch the ground with any of its four legs. It took Muybridge six years to achieve this, until the photographic technique evolved enough to make it possible to take a photograph in 1/500 of a second. Finally, in July 1877 in Palo Alto (California), Muybridge made the first photographic sequence of an animal in motion and demonstrated that, indeed, at a moment of a horse's trot the four legs of this animal are suspended in the air. The system used was a battery of twelve photographic cameras arranged side by side with an automatic shutter. In 1883, Muybridge received support from the University of Pennsylvania to continue his studies. Between 1884 and 1885 he made more than one hundred thousand photographic sequences of animals and people in motion, a selection of which was published in his eleven-volume work Animal Locomotion (1887). The images that appeared in this book were also reproduced separately, on loose sheets, using the photogravure technique (collotype) with around thirty copies each. Muybridge is unanimously considered a great photographer of the second half of the 19th century and one of the forerunners of motion photography, which would later become the technique of cinema.

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