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Archive: April 2014 (10 Posts)

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Celebrating Edweard Muybridge: Documenting Movement and Creating Art

Posted by: Danna Bell

It is hard to believe that until Edweard Muybridge began his study of animal locomotion with photography in the late 19th century, we were limited to only what the eye could see or what was in a single photograph. In celebration of Muybridge’s birthday, the Library of Congress has uploaded a number of Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion images from its collections into Flickr.