Amatitlán, Guatemala
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1999.97.25
Pendant ce temps, chez Eadweard Muybridge
La vie entière17 October 1874
Shoots Harry Larkyns at Calistoga
On 17 October 1874 Muybridge went to Calistoga and shot Larkyns at point-blank range, saying he had a message for him from his wife; Larkyns died that night, and Muybridge was arrested without protest and put in the Napa jail.
February 1875
The murder trial: Muybridge is acquitted
Muybridge was tried for murder in February 1875; Stanford had arranged his defence, and the attorney W. W. Pendegast pleaded insanity because of the head injury of 1860, although the defendant himself indicated that his actions had been deliberate. The jury acquitted him as having committed justifiable homicide, explaining that if the verdict was not in accordance with the law, it was in accordance with the law of human nature.
after February 1875
Central America: nine months of “working exile”
Shortly after his acquittal Muybridge left on a previously planned nine-month photography trip to Central America, now acting as a “working exile”; in Guatemala he advertised his works under the name “Eduardo Santiago Muybridge”. It is believed that shooting aboard a constantly rolling ship helped him develop his ability to take pictures more rapidly.
June 1878
It is revealed when a galloping horse leaves the ground
The pictures showed that a running horse has all four hooves in the air at regular intervals, not with its legs extended to front and back, as illustrators imagined, but when its legs are collected beneath its body as it switches from “pulling” with the front legs to “pushing” with the back legs.
![Tahitian Shore [recto], Paul Gauguin, c. 1900](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/e8b52d37-d08b-41c1-bc90-6566eeaf3d58/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)