Plate Number 7. Walking 1887

Eadweard Muybridge's "Plate Number 7. Walking" (1887) is a photographic study of human movement. It depicts a nude man walking, captured in a sequence of 12 images. This work is a seminal example of Muybridge's pioneering photographic research on animal and human locomotion, which revolutionized the understanding of motion and influenced the development of cinema. Muybridge's meticulous approach, using multiple cameras to capture rapid sequences, provided unprecedented insight into the intricacies of movement, paving the way for the study of biomechanics and the evolution of visual media.