Object number1996.29

Plate 344 [Striking a blow (right hand)]

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885. Volume II, Men (Nude)

Date1887

Artist Eadweard Muybridge (American, b. England 1830 - 1904)

CultureAmerican

MediumCollotype

DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (17.15 x 44.45 cm)
Matted: 22 x 26 in. (55.88 x 66.04 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. (48.9 x 61.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert Mann and Maria Marewski

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 1

Vassar Exhibitions

American Fighters: A Century of Boxing in Art

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print

Exhibition HistoryAmerican Fighters: A Century of Boxing in Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 29 March - 26 May 1996;

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022
Description12 Black and white images arranged in a 6 x 2 grid of a man going through the motions of throwing a right-handed punch.

Terms

male

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