Racialising the Virile Body: Eadweard Muybridge's Locomotion Studies 1883–1887.

PHOTOGRAPHY; MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard, 1830-1904; LOCOMOTION; RACE; ART & science; ANTHROPOLOGY

PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIAReport Available

Discusses the relationship of the research project done by photographer Eadweard Muybridge at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia concerning the photography of human and animal movement with the gendered nature of racial progress in the nineteenth century. Interest of the photographer in bringing science and art into a close dialogue with each other; Argument of the author regarding the role of the research project in the gendered evolutionary race science; Principal contribution of photography in physical anthropology.