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The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography. With a Study on Animal Mechanics Founded On Anatomy and the Revelations Of The Camera. Executed and Published Under The Auspices of Leland Stanford

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge
Date: 1881-1882
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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