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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.
This is part of Muybridge's Abnormal Movements series. It is Plate 557, entitled "Local chorea, while standing". The model was a hospital patient. The University of Pennsylvania has a pdf of Muybridge's Animal Locomotion prospectus and catalogue available online. It lists all of the plate numbers and model numbers if anyone is interested.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction and additional information. My source simply labeled the file "Man standing and waving arms."
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