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Indecent exposures : Eadweard Muybridge's animal locomotion nudes / Sarah Gordon.

The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.

Eadweard Muybridge / Philip Brookman with contributions by Marta Braun [and others].

Eadweard Muybridge : the man who invented the moving picture.

Muybridge : man in motion / by Robert Bartlett Haas.

A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man swings a hammer around his body from above his head and throws it away to his left. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A woman sitting on a chair and putting a pair of bloomers on. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man raises his right leg to hip height in front of him then rotates it round to behind him. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A clothed woman walking and bending to lift a handkerchief with her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A hand lifts a ball. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A gnu running and bucking. 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 naked man riding a horse bareback. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A woman, naked above the waist, sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out to her left, rises to a standing position, a folded paper in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man runs up to a set of cricket stumps, pauses, turns and throws a ball with his right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked child walks behind a clothed man. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man sits on a chair, pours water and drinks a cup of water from a tub. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Movement of the hand, a hand drawing a circle. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A woman pacing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Images from the collections

Images by Eadweard Muybridge

Works from the collections

A naked child walks behind a clothed man. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man sits on a chair, pours water and drinks a cup of water from a tub. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Movement of the hand, a hand drawing a circle. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A woman pacing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Images from the collections

Images by Eadweard Muybridge

Works from the collections

A naked child walks behind a clothed man. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A naked man sits on a chair, pours water and drinks a cup of water from a tub. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Movement of the hand, a hand drawing a circle. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A woman pacing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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