"Animal Locomotion", Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

Plate 521. A: Walking. B: Ascending step. C. Throwing disk. D: Using shovel. E, F. Using pick

Plate 272. Stumbling and falling on the ground

"Daisy" jumping a hurdle, saddled, clearing, landing and recovering

Plate 522. A: Jumping. B: Handspring. C, D: Somersault. E: Springing over a man's back.

Plate 245. Two models, turning around, sitting on the ground

Plate 519. A: Throwing a disk. B: Ascending a step. C: Walking

Plate 223. Stooping, lifting a basin, wiping it and turning

Plate 19. Walking, commencing to turn around

Plate 73. Turning around in surprise and running away

Fallow deer, doe galloping and kid jumping

Books

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion: New Volume 3

(Dover Publications, 1979)

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion

(Dover Publications, 1979)

Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004)

Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

(Steidl, 2010)

Animals in Motion

(Dover Publications, 1957)

Eadweard Muybridge

(Tate Publishing, 2010)

Horses and Other Animals in Motion: 45 Classic Photographic Sequences

(Dover Publications, 1985)

The Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Classic Photographic Sequences

(Dover Publications, 1984)

The Human Figure in Motion

(Dover Publications, 2012)

Eadweard Muybridge: The Complete Locomotion Photographs

(TASCHEN, 2010)

Eadweard Muybridge

(Phaidon, 2001)

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