EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE Yosemite Portfolio albumen

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE Yosemite Portfolio albumen
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE PORTFOLIO: Eadweard Muybridge, 10 Yosemite Photographs 1872 published 1976 Chicago Albumen Works, Albumen prints 17x21" ASG# EM/1430 Edition 48/300

Published jointly by Chicago Albumen Works, Inc., Chicago, and Yosemite National History Association, Yosemite, Calif.

"This collection of ten gold-toned albumen prints from replicated negatives is published in a limited edition of three hundred portfolios"--Leaf. The photographs in this portfolio were printed by Charles B. Reynolds and Doug Munson Leaf.

"The numbers in the titles have been retained from the original mount boards and refer to the listings in Muybridge's Catalogue of photographic views illustrating the Yosemite, Mammoth Trees, Geyser Springs, and other remarkable and interesting scenery of the Far West, published by Bradley and Rulofson of San Francisco in 1873"--Leaf

Prints:
1. Valley of the Yosemite. Early morning from Moonlight Rock. no.2
2. Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford. no. 4
3. Loya, Valley of the Yosemite. (The Sentinel.) 3570 feet high. no. 14
4. Tutokanula. Valley of the Yosemite. (The Great Chief) "El Capitan." 3500 feet high. no. 9
5. Falls of the Yosemite. (Great Grizzly Bear.) 2600 feet fall. no. 23
6. Pi-Wi-Ack. Valley of Yosemite. (Shower of Stars) "Vernal Falls." 400 feet fall. no. 29
7. Tenaya Canyon. Valley of Yosemite. From Union Point. no. 35
8. Wm. H. Seward. 85 feet in circumference. Mariposa Grove of Mammoth Trees. no. 51
9. The High Sierra, from Glacier Rock. no. 38
-10, Lake Tenaya. Sierra Nevada Mountains. no. 46
Text: Muybridge and the Yosemite Valley / Robert Bartlett Haas - Albumen printing, a personal, historical and technical note - Joel Snyder.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) born Edward James Muggerage came to America form England in 1851. He worked as a book distributor that introduced him to photography albums. He began making smaller Yosemite landscapes and stereo views in 1867 and in 1872 made is most significant landscape work in Yosemite with the mammoth plate camera. After this he became interested in motion studies under the patronage of Leland Stanford. He took time lapse photographs of horses that showed for the first time that when a horse galloped all four hooves are off the ground. Using this Animal locomotion format he moved to Philadelphia and made a series of Human Locomotion views and other works that effectively served toward the development of moving pictures, movies.

Condition: Excellent. Minor wear