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Thursday, December 29, 2022

My favorite Muybridge model


Our last Muybridge image of the set is my favorite middle-aged, 
balding, slightly chubby, mustachioed model heaving a big rock.

 

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  1. Now that could have been dangerous. I'm not one of those mamby-pamby Health & Safety types - some of what we got up to when I was running would be needlessly illegal today - but in all seriousness, let's hope he didn't drop that rock on his toes!

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    1. Right. Some of Muybridge's fellow photographers who did artists' studies at about the same time can be shown to have used fake rocks. Being a stickler for scientific accuracy, it's a pretty safe bet he used the real thing.

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  2. This is from Animal Locomotion, plate 312, called "Heaving a 75-lb. rock," so the rock is definitely not fake. The model is listed as model #39 in the catalogue of plates. I've been able to identify some of Muybridge's models, but not #39.

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    1. Being my favorite, I had fond hope that somehow his name was known. Oh, well. Thanks again for all your great info, Larry!

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  3. Before enlarging the shot, I thought he was getting ready to throw some sort of ball.

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