Muybridge - Studies in Foreshortening

This series of images by Muybridge from 1878 conveys a sense of movement both within each image and between the images. The title, "Studies in Foreshortening" reveals its goal - to create a pictorial footprint of a galloping horse and rider from different angles. Regardless of the viewpoint, each image demonstrates both kinesthetic sympathy and anticipated movement, to varying degrees depending on when during the galloping cycle each photo was taken. (The movement cycle, or gait, of a horse changes depending on its speed. For instance, when the horse "trots" its legs move in diagonal pairs and when it gallops up to three legs can be off the ground at once.) The positioning of the horse's legs and tail convey great speed regardless of how much one knows about a horse's gait, however, because of this kinesthetic sympathy.

Additionally, the work displays unity through the layout of images in an individual grid pattern as well as rhythm and movement between each photograph.