Plate Number 44. Walking and taking off a hat 1887

"Plate Number 44. Walking and taking off a hat" is a photographic sequence created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887. The series captures a man walking and removing his hat, with each individual frame showing a slightly different stage of the action. Muybridge was a pioneer of photographic motion studies, and his work was instrumental in understanding how animals and humans move. This image, like many of Muybridge's photographic series, demonstrates the artist's fascination with capturing motion through sequential imagery.