Muybridge Single Panels Day

Today we are going to look at some individual frames from Eadweard Muybridge's 

groundbreaking motion study photos.  We start with this man with a scythe.

 

Arm waving

The great majority of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies featured men (and women) engaged in everday activities or sports.  That coincidentally covered a huge range of anatomical movements.  In the case of the above panel and the sequence it is from, however, an unidentified model was hired to simply stand there and wave his arms around for the cameras.

 

Digger

Researchers have described this fellow digging with a shovel as an actual farmer.  I'm not sure 

if he is the same man as the one with a scythe in the preceding image in today's set.

 

Bubble and bounce

We get a clear view of bubble butt and a certain other feature on the bounce in this one.

I've posted other views of this model before, but this version suddenly caught my eye.

 

Potatoes

More potatoes than meat in the package,

but I love the model's expression.

 

Ladder climber

This man climbing a ladder looks more like one of the U of Pennsylvania student athletes who posed for Muybridge than the working men hired as models.  The students, being athletes, generally appeared in sports settings, but I think there had to have been exceptions.

 

Redinger and Breen

Several weeks ago I posted some motion study related photos by Albert Londe, the groundbreaking French scientific photographer.  The always observant Dee Exx noticed an anvil in one of them and inquired about blacksmiths in Londe's work.  I replied that he indeed used them, but the most famous instance was by Eadweard Muybridge.  The above single image is from a sequence, and the men have been identified as Redinger and Breen.  (No, I don't know which is which.)  You can see a GIF of these two from a different angle here:

http://www.vintagemusclemen.com/search/label/Blacksmith?updated-max=2019-10-12T02:30:00-10:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false

 

Sledgehammer Sideburns

I call this one Sledgehammer Sideburns.

Sounds like a name for a rock group.

 

Grainy

The grainy image quality on this picture leaves a lot to be desired,

but I really like the way the model is positioned.

 

New version

Closing the Muybridge set with a single panel cropped from a sequence I posted over five years ago.  This time around, I found a higher resolution scan that enlarges better.

 

Western Photography Guild Day

It's Western Photography Guild day, and we start with Chris Leonard 

stretched out in front of Don Whitman's 1970-ish TV.  This is 

from one of WPG's "At Home" themed photo sets.

 

Glen Hudson

The color in this shot of Glen Hudson seems super saturated.  Kodachrome?

 

Brian and Bud

These two grapplers are Brian Hart (right) and Bud Romer.  

I can't tell if Bud is trying to throw Brian off the hill or kiss him.

 

Billy Joe Carr

Billy Joe Carr never posed frontally, at least as far as I've seen.

He did, however, do some nice derriere shots like this one.

 

Buck Youngblood

I'm posting a front and back twofer of Buck Youngblood.

 

Terry Redpath

Terry Redpath gives us a grin.  Or is it a smirk?

 

Andre and Tim

Here we see Andre Belval and Tim Richardson on a modernist couch.

 

Steve Anthony

Steve Anthony stretched out on a bed for this one.

 

Marc Arno

I used to think that Marc Arno's very best pictures were the color ones,

and then I came across this gem.  Live and learn.

 

Larry Huston

I don't know what Larry Huston is doing in our final shot 

of the day, but he looks good doing it.

 

Early 20th Century

It's early 20th Century day, and we start with another item for the hood ornament collection.

This time it's a version of Mercury by French photographer Jacques Boyer.

 

That look

"If looks could kill, it would have been us instead of him."

Or, as we say here in Hawaii, "Stinkeye."

 

Eugene Rapin

This is Eugene Rapin from Prof. Desbonnet's publication La Culture Physique.

My source, however, did not attribute it to the professor himself.

 

Pair

They seem concerned about something off to the left.

 

Inspired by

This one was inspired by The Thinker with a bit of Narcissus thrown in.

 

Academic Study

Larry over at The Unashamed Male sent me this photo

which is an academic study focused on muscle tension.

Thanks, Larry!

 

Not French

At first glance, I thought, "This one has to be French."  Well, I was wrong.

Turns out to be a Von Pluschow photo of an Italian.

 

J. Helin

Here we have an autographed photo of J. Helin of Helsinki.

Finland was part of the Russian Empire when this was made.

 

Page 639

The French Sports Federation published a review called L'Éducation Physique.  When I saw this photo of Josef Auer of Zurich listed as from page 639, I thought they had put out a huge book version and got excited.  Turns out that they continued their page numeration across issues over the year, and this was likely from near the end of the year.  Oh, well.  I will continue to research it.

Soft focus

The soft focus in this photo by an unknown was likely an artistic device

used by a group of photographers known as pictorialists.