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Plate Number 538. Double amputation of thighs, boy. A: Moving forward. B: Getting on chair. C: Getting down from chair

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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