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Name: The human figure in motion
Author: Eadweard Muybridge

📘 The human figure in motion by Eadweard Muybridge

The largest collection in print of Muybridge's famous high-speed action photos. 4789 photographs in more than 500 action-strip-sequences (at shutter speeds up to 1/6000th of a second) illustrate men, women, children—mostly undraped—performing such actions as walking, running, getting up, lying down, carrying objects, throwing, etc. "An unparalleled dictionary of action for all artists," AMERICAN ARTIST.

First publish date: 1901

Authors: Eadweard Muybridge

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