On View
Not on viewObject number1995/6.40.10
Lake Tenaya, Sierra Nevada Mountains
Maker
Eadweard Muybridge
(American, 1830-1904)
Date1872
Mediumalbumen print
Dimensionsmount: 24 3/8 × 29 1/2 in. (61.9 × 74.9 cm)
image: 17 in. × 21 1/4 in. (43.2 × 54 cm)
image: 17 in. × 21 1/4 in. (43.2 × 54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Wm. John Upjohn
Exhibition History"Ansel Adams and Eadweard Muybridge," KIA Long Gallery (Nov. 16, 2001 - Jan. 13, 2002).
"Framing Moments: Photography from KIA's Permanent Collection," KIA (Feb. 6 - May 16, 2021)
Label TextThis view of Lake Tenaya, located in what today is Yosemite National Park in California, was made on Eadweard Muybridge’s second expedition to the area. He made his first trip there in 1868 and it was the exhibition of the large, spectacular photographs from that time that brought him almost overnight, world-wide fame. Although born in England, Muybridge spent most of his career in the U.S. photographing both rural and urban lands extensively. The animal and human motion studies for which he is best-known today were not begun until the later 1870s, a few years after the KIA’s majestic alpine landscape.
[Framing Moments Exhibition, 2021]
