[Woman Opening Parasol] 1883 - 1886

This 1883-1886 photographic study, titled "Woman Opening Parasol," is part of Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking "Animal Locomotion" series. Muybridge, a pioneer of photographic motion studies, captured the precise movements of a woman opening and closing a parasol in a sequence of 24 photographs. This groundbreaking work, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revolutionized the understanding of motion and contributed significantly to the development of cinema.