Eadweard Muybridge makes his most important photographic…

Eadweard Muybridge makes his most important photographic studies of motion from 1884 to 1887 under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.

These consist of photographs of various activities of human figures, clothed and naked, which are to form a visual compendium of human movements for the use of artists and scientists.

Many of these photographs are published in 1887 in the portfolio Animal Locomotion, An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement, containing seven hundred and eighty-one groups of sequential frames.