Plate Number 523. A: Striking a blow. B, E: Throwing disk. C, F: Heaving a 75-lb. stone. D: Throwing a ball

Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

This photograph displays a series of sequential images of a figure involved in an athletic pose with a ball. The grid pattern features rows of small black-and-white photographs capturing different moments in the… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge ¹
Date: 1887 ¹
Medium: collotype ¹
Original: 3,221 × 4,244 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

This is a photograph of a sequence showing a person swinging a bat. The image is organized into two rows of photographic frames, capturing the action of bat-swinging in a series.

This is a photograph showing a series of sequential images capturing motion. The photo consists of two rows of images, each depicting a subject in motion from different angles and stages.

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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