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Thursday, April 13, 2023

All four directions



There are only a few Muybridge plates in my collection that show a model from all four directions.  Having found and posted a snippet from this one in the past, I was pleased to find the full version.  What puzzled me, however, was why Muybridge (or some subsequent curator) did not arrange them so that they flowed down the page.  I had to crop the above and align them to show the sequence.



 

4 comments:

  1. The original display of these can be a little disjointed. Some are "retakes", so not an actual series.

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    1. For future reference, how can you tell they weren't all shot at the same time? The only difference I see is that the ground coloration is a bit different.

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    2. Some time ago, Tate Britain Gallery had a Muybridge exhibition. I attended a related talk. The speaker pointed out a number of discrepancies in several of the series.

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