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CHAPTER 8Moment by Moment

Elapsed Time—Eadweard Muybridge Revisited

Featuring work by Andrea Jones

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FIGURE 8.1 Lucy. © Andrea Jones

 

 

JONES MADE THIS WORK by adopting Eadweard Muybridge's famous grid representations of photographic studies of human and animal locomotion. Muybridge's stop-action images affirmatively settled the question of whether all four hooves of a horse in a gallop were simultaneously airborne. Up until that time, most painters depicted galloping horses with at least one hoof on the ground. These studies and the latter ...

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