MUYBRIDGE (Eadweard). Animals in Motion. - Lot 226

MUYBRIDGE (Eadweard). Animals in Motion. New York, Dover Publications, n.d. Large quarto, publisher’s cardboard binding with illustrated dust jacket. Edited by Lewis S. Brown. A famous collection of photographic studies of animal movement by Eadweard Muybridge. The volume brings together 183 plates comprising more than 4,000 individual photographs, devoted in particular to horses, dogs, cats, lions, kangaroos, deer, and numerous other species. A seminal publication in the history of scientific photography and chronophotography, as Muybridge’s sequences played a major role in the visual analysis of motion and exerted a lasting influence on artists and the early days of cinema. Dust jacket intact, some signs of wear; in good overall condition.

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