Keywords: photography physics inventors muybridge smithsonian probably public domain probablypublicdomain text SI Neg. 2004-44766. Date: na....Title: "Black Pigeon flying.".Series Neg. No. 1113.An. Loc. Serial No. None.Classification: "Wild Animals.".Muybridge's cyanotypes are working proofs, the contact prints he made from more than 20,000 negatives he took at the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1886 while photographing human and animal subjects in motion from lateral (parallel), front and rear positions. Since the original negatives no longer exist, the cyanotypes provide us with the opportunity to see the pictures Muybridge achieved before he edited and cropped them for publication..From the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History...Credit: Eadweard Muybridge (Smithsonian Institution) SI Neg. 2004-44766. Date: na....Title: "Black Pigeon flying.".Series Neg. No. 1113.An. Loc. Serial No. None.Classification: "Wild Animals.".Muybridge's cyanotypes are working proofs, the contact prints he made from more than 20,000 negatives he took at the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1886 while photographing human and animal subjects in motion from lateral (parallel), front and rear positions. Since the original negatives no longer exist, the cyanotypes provide us with the opportunity to see the pictures Muybridge achieved before he edited and cropped them for publication..From the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History...Credit: Eadweard Muybridge (Smithsonian Institution) |