Studio and Track

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Studio and Track

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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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View of a long wooden shed with a battery of cameras facing a track that has been marked at regular intervals of distance and its background wall. A number of men can be seen at the track and by the shed.

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https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/ef79c499-e1a1-4ecb-b7ef-1fd18d07a838
Artist/Maker
Eadweard J. Muybridge
subject_of[Homepage].id
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1092DJ
Date
negative 1878–1879; print 1881
Medium
Iron salt process
Culture
American
Object Type
Print

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Object ID
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Object Type
Print
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Creator
Eadweard J. Muybridge
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
American
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Medium
Iron salt process
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Department
Photographs
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
negative 1878–1879; print 1881
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Begin Year
1878
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End Year
1881
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