Running

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Running

Eadweard J. Muybridge

Date
negative 1878–1879; print 1881
Medium
Iron salt process
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Nine frames depicting a Greyhound running. The frames are numbered one through nine.

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Creator

Eadweard J. Muybridge

American Photographer · 1830–1904

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In his early twenties, Eadweard Muybridge moved to the United States, where he was drawn to the primarily uncharted Western landscape. After a stagecoach accident, he convalesced back home in England and learned photography. Upon returning to the States in 1867, he soon earned his reputation photographing the landscape. Apparently a hot-tempered man, Muybridge shot and killed his much younger wife

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