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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Robert one last time

 


I'm still looking for more segments from the sequence that contains 
this frame of Robert Glendenning about to catch a baseball.

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  1. Now this looks like it was done in a tiled shower/lover room. Would the washed out body be a result of the flash? I remember your telling me, Jerry, that washout was not unusual.

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    1. The background pattern is a graphic grid that Muybridge sometimes used for calibration and sizing.

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    2. I think I've seen, or heard from a talk when the Tate gallery ran an exhibition, that the background is a white net in front of a black black painted wall.

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    3. Thanks for the interesting detail, David!

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  2. By the way, Jerry, Muybridge's studies are among my favourite male nude studies. Thanks! This is great!

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    1. Glad you enjoy these, B.D. I'm quite fond of them, too.

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  3. LOCKER ROOM! NOT "LOVER!". Damned spell check.

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  4. This is the first image from plate 288 of Muybridge's book "Animal Locomotion," captioned "Baseball, error." You can see all the images from this plate on Wikimedia Commons at
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=nude+man+baseball+error&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

    The images on the search results page are not in order, but you can figure out the order from the suffix in the file names of the individual photos (e.g. the first image has suffix 1). The reason it's called "Baseball error" seems to be that he's trying to catch a ball, but he fails, and the ball goes past him. -Larry

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  5. Hello all,

    Here is a link to Muybridge's work.

    http://sillydragon.com/data/2016/12/13/muybridge-archive/

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