Block F
01/15/04
Eadweard Muybridge
a historical explaination.
“Head-spring, a flying pigeon interfering, June 26, 1885” or Plate 365 of Muybridge’s book “Animal Locomotion.”
Muybridge asked students from University of Pennsylvania to do simple and seemingly random actions for the purpose of scientific study of the body and learning how to accurately depict motion for more complex and specific actions. A pigeon happened to disrupt this man’s head-spring. Put your mouse over the lower set of pictures to see where he is.
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