Animal Locomotion (Plate 465)

Eadweard Muybridge

1887

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Study of a African-American farm worker
Three Dutch Girls, Lucille Douglass, charcoal
Polly Kane, Childe Hassam, engraving
This black and white print represents a nude man with a beard and chest hair. His hands are chained, and he is using extreme strength to break two pillars (likely the two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, where the biblical figure of Samson dies).