Early Photography: Island of Naos, from Perico, Bay of Panama – Eadweard Muybridge

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Title: Island of Naos, from Perico, Bay of Panama

Date: 1875, published 1877

Photographer: Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

Process: albumen silver print

Note: Born Edward Muggeridge, Muybridge is famous for his photographic studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection.

Source and information: Smithsonian American Art Museum