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Plate Number 471. Child crawling on hands and knees

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a series of black and white photographs depicting a person in motion on all fours. The images are arranged in a grid format and capture the subject from different angles while crawling. The sequence focuses on studying movement and documenting the subject's positions as they move across a marked background. The photographs show various perspectives, including side view, frontal view, and back view, to provide a detailed observation of the movement dynamics.

Artwork Details

Date
1887
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
4360 × 2013 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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