1902 MUYBRIDGE - ANÌMALS in MOTION - 2nd Impression!!

1902 MUYBRIDGE - ANÌMALS in MOTION - 2nd Impression!!

MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard

Animals in Motion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Progressive Movements.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1902.

Oblong quarto. 31 x 25 cms.

With over 95 of the

Original red cloth recased

Second imprewssion of the first revised and updated edition of Muybridge's pioneering Animal Locomotion (1887), containing his selection of over 95 of the "most important plates" from that landmark 11-volume photobook, including several from the "Palo Alto investigation of 1872-79." In 1872 Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by former California governor Leland Stanford "to settle a long-lived dispute regarding equine mechanics—whether or not all four of a horse's feet simultaneously come off the ground when it trots. Muybridge designed an elaborate system of cameras with rapid shutter mechanisms attached to strings that when broken would trip the shutters in sequence as the horse moved past. It was proved that the horse was indeed briefly suspended in the air when moving from a trot to a gallop, and Muybridge had found his vocation." Between 1884 and 1886, Muybridge photographed humans, birds, and wild and domestic animals in motion, and in 1887 published his 11-volume Animal Locomotion, "one of the most important of the multi-volume 19th-century photobooks" (Parr & Badger I:52). Arranged into sections such as "The Walk, "The Gallop, "The Flight of Birds," Muybridge's work is variously seen as an antecedent of filmmaking and as "a treasure trove of figurative, often erotic, imagery" (Lenman, 430).

Ex Newberry Library with perforated stamp to title; front fly leaf loose; neatly rebacked.

3 Kilos.

ANTIQUARIAT Daniel Good, Beromunster - Switzerland