BOOKS
Eadweard Muybridge.
Muybridge's complete human and animal locomotion. All 781 plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion by Eadweard Muybridge. Volume II.
New York , Dover Publications, 1979.
€ 40.00
Bound, with original dustjacket, pp. 632-1139, 24x31,5cm., 268 plates with more than 6000 images in b/w., in fair condition (ex-bibl. copy with stamps, dustjacket and binding with use on the edges and corners, first 2 pages a bit folded, inside otherwise good). ISBN: 9780486237932.
This volume II presents a reproduction of the original human and Animal Locomotion (1887), containing 268 collotype plates by Eadweard Muybridge, documenting more than 6,000 sequential images of males, females and children in motion. Organized across nude and draped human subjects and abnormal or clinical movements, it offers an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of movement. Content: 5: Males (Pelvis and Cloth); 6: Females (Semi-Nude & Transparant Drapery) & Children; 7: Males and Females (Draped) & Miscellaneous Subjects; 8: Abnormal Movements, Males and Females (Nude & Semi-Nude).










