A man walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Eadweard Muybridge

1887

1 print : collotype

Wellcome Collection

"Here, a Dane, aged fifty-two years, with a history of a long-standing and increasing ataxia, was first photographed (see upper series) while walking with the eyes open. An examination of the figures shows that although the gait differs from the normal in the two principal factors described, yet, owing to the guidance afforded by his eyes and to the evident effort he is making, as shown in the throwing back of the shoulders and the fixation of the trunk, his walk is tolerably good. In the lower series, however, he was photographed while his eyes were closed. A remarkable change is at once observed, and it needs no elaborate study of