“According to a leading scholar of 19th-century American photography, many works in a landmark retrospective of Eadweard Muybridge at the Corcoran Gallery of Art may not be by Muybridge at all.” So begins a letter we have received from Alexis Anderson of ArtInfo, a premier art news portal. A large body of Muybridge’s work, along with pieces of equipment he used to create his pictures with, have been accumulated in the exhibition; which will travel to the Tate Britain in September and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in February. It turns out that Weston Naef, a former J. Paul Getty Museum curator, thinks many of the photographs on display were actually taken by Muybridge’s friend Carleton Watkins, and sold to him for publication. Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes (MAN) has just started a week-long series on the emerging debate, with the first part being a Q&A with Naef himself. Interested readers should follow the link below to check out his introduction to the three-part interview.

Website: The newest Eadweard Muybridge mystery on MAN

Photo: Grasshopper Fall by Eadweard Muybridge
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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