Animal Locomotion (plate 326) (Woman with Tennis Racquet, Throwing Water, etc.)
Eadweard Muybridge
Animal Locomotion (plate 326) (Woman with Tennis Racquet, Throwing Water, etc.), 1887
Photograph
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In this grid of sequential exposures, Eadweard Muybridge studies motion as mechanism, dissecting athletic gesture into calibrated frames. Each panel isolates a fraction of effort, where time is compartmentalized in space. Send to the more athletic among us, anyone itching to dominate at a field day, chase down a drop shot, or serve up a practiced ace. With gratitude to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Eadweard Muybridge
Animal Locomotion (plate 326) (Woman with Tennis Racquet, Throwing Water, etc.), 1887
Photograph
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In this grid of sequential exposures, Eadweard Muybridge studies motion as mechanism, dissecting athletic gesture into calibrated frames. Each panel isolates a fraction of effort, where time is compartmentalized in space. Send to the more athletic among us, anyone itching to dominate at a field day, chase down a drop shot, or serve up a practiced ace. With gratitude to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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