Flickr Commons: National Media Museum, UK. Part 2

More from the National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom’s eclectic group of subsets in the Flickr Commons.

First, one of 12 sequential photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) from a set called  “Joanna Quinn Selects.” Quinn is an animator.

'Cockatoo flying', 1887, Eadweard Muybridge

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/4057432475/

From “Animals”:

Cat and Dog Jumping. by Arthur Clive Banfield (1875-1965)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3588574729/

The Museum notes that this is a chronophoto: “Frozen in motion using bright lights of electrical sparks created from Leyden jars.”

You never know when you might need a picture of a “yawning koala bear”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3589381656/

or an old English black rat:

by Douglas English (died 1939).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3589381404/

One from “Snapping Dogs” set:

Reference print for 'Hound of the Baskervilles'. Photographer unknown.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/308487696

and from “Human Expressions”:

'Expression of Joy' from 'The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals' London 1872. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

'Expressions of Grief' from 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' London 1872. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3084040853/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3084040999/