Plate Number 94. Ascending stairs and looking around with basin in hands 1887

Eadweard Muybridge's "Plate Number 94. Ascending stairs and looking around with basin in hands" is a photo-series from 1887 that captures the motion of a woman climbing stairs. This work is a notable example of Muybridge's groundbreaking photographic studies of human movement. The sequential images, arranged in two rows, show the woman's body in various stages of motion, providing a visual representation of the mechanics of walking. These images, which depict the woman from both the front and the back, contributed to the advancement of scientific understanding of human locomotion and influenced the development of cinema.