Plate 49—Walking and turning around rapidly, a satchel in one hand, cane in other, 1887
Vintage collotype
Image size: 10 ½ × 9 ¾ in.
Sheet size 14 × 20 in.
April 15, 2024
Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking motion studies captured the public’s imagination in the 19th century, and they still delight a broad audience today. They are striking now in the way that they so clearly prefigure the enormous influence of the motion picture in the 20th century. The subject of this photo sequence, who we see turning briskly with a hat and cane, now looks like a precursor to Charlie Chaplin’s beloved film persona “the Tramp”.
