Eadweard Muybridge takes enormous physical risks to…

1872 CE

Eadweard Muybridge takes enormous physical risks to make his photographs, using a heavy view camera and stacks of glass plate negatives.

A spectacular stereograph he publishes in 1872 shows him sitting casually on a projecting rock over the Yosemite Valley, with two thousand feet of empty space yawning below him.

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Yosemite National Park Mariposa California United States View →

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Eadweard Muybridge View → Leland Stanford View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → California, State of (U.S.A.) View →

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Western Art: Realism View →

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