MUYBRIDGE'S COMPLETE HUMAN AND ANIMAL LOCOMOTION (THREE VOLUMES)

This is the only complete edition now available of the most definitive photographic study ever made of human and animal life in motion. 

Painstakingly reproduced from an extraordinarily rare set of original plates and sturdily clothbound, it includes more than 4,500 stopped-action photos of nude and partially nude men, women, and children in a wide variety of physical activities. 

Another 4,000 stopped-action photos depict animals in motion. 

Each plate fills a two-page spread, showing the same action from three different angles simultaneously. Essential for painters, sculptors, and photographers, fascinating to all with an interest in the arts and sciences.

Unabridged republication of the eleven volume work "Animal Locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements originally published in 1887. 

Most of the plates show three different simultaneous perspectives on a single action - front, rear, and side or three-quarter view - which Muybridge achieved through ingenious use of from 152 to 56 cameras and his own electromagnetic tripping device. Large format. 

Pale blue cloth boards with dark blue title label and gilt title to spine.

Males (Nude) / Females (Nude) Hardcover
Volume 1 of 3-volume set includes studies of nude men and women in remarkable stopped-action photographs by pioneering master photographer. Essential for artists, animators, photographers, cinematographers, anyone interested in the mechanics of people in motion.

Volume 2 of 3-volume hardcover set includes studies of draped and semi-nude men and women plus the disabled, in remarkable stopped-action photographs by pioneering master photographer. Essential for artists, animators, photographers, cinematographers, anyone interested in the mechanics of people in motion.

Volume 3 includes studies of horses, domestic and wild animals, and birds in remarkable stopped-action photographs by pioneering master photographer.

Also includes the original prospectus and a catalogue of plates.Muybridge's

Fotomechanische herdruk van 1e uitgave.: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1887

Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1st thus. 1979

 3 dln. (XLII, 1597 p.) 

4,500 stopped-action photos of nude and partially nude men, women, and children in a wide variety of physical activities, another 4,000 stopped-action photos depict animals in motion. 

33 cm.

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