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Animal Locomotion; Plate 197 (Couple Dancing)
by Eadweard Muybridge

ARTIST STATEMENT

Many years ago, I was browsing in the Museum of Modern Art’s bookstore and came across a French book on motion in photography that had this Muybridge image on the cover. Muybridge is best known for his studies of animals in motion, but he also photographed the human body in motion. I found this image particularly pleasing and very romantic, so I set out to try and buy a print.

Calls to all the Muybridge specialists proved fruitless. Trips to galleries and art fairs yielded no leads. Then one day I was at Photo LA and saw a booth with Muybridge prints. The booth owner didn’t have it but thought he had seen it in another booth. That booth didn’t have it but thought he had seen it in another booth. On and on this went until the last possible booth, where the dealer dug into a stack of gravures and produced the image.

I brought the print back home and eventually took it to Washington, D.C., for my friend David Adamson to scan so I would always have a copy and could in fact sell reproductions if I wanted to. (Anything published before 1923 is in the public domain, so there are no copyright issues.)

After misplacing the print and finally finding it again, it’s now back in the gallery. After what must be at least a seven-or-eight-year odyssey from first seeing the image in a book, clearly the only solution is to get it framed and hang it on the wall. I am reproducing this image so that others may enjoy this print as I do, and as a tribute to Muybridge’s contributions to stop-motion photography. It’s also going to be my go-to wedding present for friends embarking on married life!

—James Danziger

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More art by Eadweard Muybridge

  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 759 (Bird)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 626 (Galloping Horse)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 658 (Mule)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 733 (Elephant)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 44 (Man Taking Off Hat)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 38 (Woman Opening Parasol)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 596 (Horse)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 707 (Dog)
  • Animal Locomotion: Plate 717 (Cat)
  • Animal Locomotion; Plate 187, Dancing (Fancy)

Animal Locomotion; Plate 197 (Couple Dancing)

by Eadweard Muybridge

archival pigment print
available framed

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  • Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
  • Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper
  • Includes a certificate of authenticity
  • Available framed or print only

The certificate of authenticity is signed by James Danziger, owner of the original photogravure on which this print is based.

These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a matte finish.

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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