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Walking

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Animal locomotion
Athletics
Aerobic exercises
Human locomotion

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Images about Walking

219 images from works
  • A clothed woman walking and bending to lift a handkerchief with her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An elephant walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man plays tennis, mounts steps, walks down steps and climbs a ladder. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A capybara walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A woman walking, wearing a sheer dress. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A sow walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A baboon walking on all fours. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A near-naked woman with cerebral palsy walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked man walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Works from the collections

237 works

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    A lion walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2015266i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    A horse walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2010699i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    Walking I : boy aged 11 months.

    | Date: 1953
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    A clothed woman carrying a chair and fan puts the chair down, sits on it, opens the fan and waves it about. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005244i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

    | Date: 1661 | Reference: 46693i

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Lifting and carrying
Horses
Exercise
Fund Raising
Health Promotion
Physical Fitness
Charities
London
HIV Seropositivity
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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