Plate Number 198. Curtesying 1887

"Plate Number 198. Curtesying" is a photographic sequence created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887. This piece captures the intricate movements of a woman in a long, flowing gown performing a curtsy, broken down into individual frames. Muybridge, a pioneer of photographic studies of motion, utilized multiple cameras to record successive phases of a subject's actions, pioneering the development of motion pictures. This work, along with his other "animal locomotion" studies, revolutionized how people perceived movement and influenced the development of cinema.