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Collotype. Image: 24x30.6 cm (9½x12"); framed: 63.8x64.3 cm (25x25¼") Collotype from Muybridge's famous series of stop-action sequential photography, capturing the movements of men, women, children, horses, birds, lions, etc. Plate 105 shows a nude woman ascending a staircase. Edweard Muybridge, 1830-1904, began his long career in photography in California, creating famous views of Yosemite and other scenic wonders. In 1872, Leland Stanford (one of the original "Big Four" and the president of the Central Pacific Railroad) commissioned Muybridge to employ his photographic expertise to help Stanford win a bet: establish that when galloping, a horse had all four legs off the ground at one time. Muybridge devised his sequential stop-action photography using a series of cameras the shutters of which were triggered by trip-wires as the horse ran by. Stanford won the bet, and Muybridge developed a new outlet for his photographic genius. Some twelve years later, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge began his major work in the field, his "Animal Locomotion," consisting in its entirety 781 plates reproducing some 20,000 negatives. Additional shipping charges may apply