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Plate Number 523. A: Striking a blow. B, E: Throwing disk. C, F: Heaving a 75-lb. stone. D: Throwing a ball

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge
Date: 1887
Collection: National Gallery of Art

Pioneering British-American photographer whose sequential motion studies of animals and humans laid the scientific and aesthetic foundations of cinema.

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