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Gif made from Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion” Series, 1887, Plate 166
This series of still photographs was of a nude man jumping over a man’s back. The original vintage collotype measured 20 x 24 inches.
One of Muybridge’s main working methods was to rig a series of large cameras in a line to shoot images automatically as the subjects passed. Viewed in a Zoopraxiscope machine, his images laid the foundation for motion pictures and contemporary cinematography.
Eadweard Muybridge, “Tennis Player”
These images are from pioneering motion-picture maker Eadweard Muybridge’s historically significant ‘Animal Locomotion’ study done in 1877 and 1878. Multiple stop-motion images were taken with cameras and projected for viewing with a zoopraziscope, an early device used in cinematography that predated the perforated flexible film strip. Ten photographs were compiled and put into a zoetrope format to create the movement of the nude man playing tennis.