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Studio and Track
Creator
Eadweard J. MuybridgeAmerican Photographer · 1830–1904
All works by this person →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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- negative 1878–1879; print 1881
- Medium
- Iron salt process
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c6e35a3e-9e7a-4e6c-ab69-0907c6f8ef43
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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