Eadweard Muybridge’s Walking Series forms part of his larger motion-study project, most fully realized in Animal Locomotion (1887). These photographic sequences analyze the mechanics of human and animal walking frame by frame, using a battery of cameras triggered electrically to produce rapid, consecutive exposures.

Through these studies, Muybridge revealed gait phases and bodily dynamics that had never been visually documented with such precision. The series includes images of men, women, children, and individuals with atypical gait patterns, offering both scientific and artistic insight into how bodies move through space. The Walking Series became a foundational reference for biomechanics, physiology, visual arts, and early cinematic experimentation, especially as Muybridge later used some sequences in demonstrations with his Zoopraxiscope.

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MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887.