SAM SAMORE | Tower of Lips, 1990-1995 | Seven black-and-white photographs
Sold for £37,250 at the Contemporary Art Day Sale, 17 February 2012, London, achieving an auction record for the artist.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE!
Born 182 years ago today, Muybridge was an accomplished bookseller, inventor, and businessman. He began pursuing his interest in photography in San Francisco in 1867, and went on to pioneer new ways of documenting the nature of movement. Today, Muybridge is known as one of the most influential and innovative photographers of his time.
Featured here: Muybridge’s Daisy with Rider, 1887
(via SFMOMA)