Muybridge Plate No. 312

I'm letting my OCD run wild today.  While looking to clip a couple of tasty items from Eadweard Muybridge's Plate No. 312, I noticed that instead of the usual sequential presentation, the individual images were arranged in reverse order.  So instead of presenting the natural motion intended, it would have been backwards.  This plate shows a man lifting and then heaving ar rock from two different angles.  I have cropped them and posted them here today in the natural order.  If some photoshop genius out there wants to make a GIF of these and send it to me, you will be lavishly praised, thanked, and credited.

 

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He has it off the ground!

 

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We only see the stone in one of these matching frames, but they are of the same moment.

 

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The last pair of frames seems to show follow-through and a slight smirk from the model.

 

Reclining Nudes

Today we look at reclining nudes who do not appear to be the usual physique models,

beginning with one of my favorite Muybridge models from Plate 258.

 

Muybridge Single Frames

Today we will look at some single frames from Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies.

Let's start with a young man descending a short run of steps.

 

Dumbbell

I really like this frame of a young man lifting a dumbbell.

 

Going around

This model is swinging his arms in a circle, and they aren't the only part swinging.

I need to make a GIF of the whole sequence, but I'm too cheap to buy the software.

 

Penn baseball

This model was one of the U. of Pennsylvania student athletes who modeled for Muybridge.

 

Lateral sclerosis

Muybridge completed several motion sequences using disabled individuals as models.  This was 

done in the interest of science and progress, and the model here had lateral sclerosis.  

Muybridge received letters from doctors and researches thanking him for these, btw.  

When I posted some similar images in the past, I was gratified to receive comments 

and notes from disabled individuals thanking me.  As one put it, "Yes we are disabled, 

but we can also proudly be naked."  And beautiful, I might add.

 

Farmer

This fellow is one of several Muybridge models described as farmers.

Gotta love that straw hat.