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Pictures from the Lava Beds, from "The Last of the Modocs," Harper's Weekly

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge
Date: June 21, 1873
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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