Phenakistoscope

Phenakistoscope

Summary

Eadweard Muybridge's Phenakistoscope: A Couple Waltzing

                                                                                                  

Original disc                                      Detail view

  

                                                 

Mirror simulation                             Spinning disc

CREATOR Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904, artist.

TITLE The zoopraxiscope* - a couple waltzing (No. 35., title from item.)

SUMMARY Images on a disc which when spun gives the illusion of a couple dancing.

MEDIUM 1 print : lithograph, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED c1893 (14699Y U.S. Copyright Office). Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge (expired).

SUBJECTS Dance--1890-1900; Locomotion--1890-1900; Optical illusions--1890-1900.

FORMAT Optical toys 1890-1900; Lithographs Color 1890-1900. Exhibited at "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art, MA, and other venues, 2005-2007.

June 19, 2014