From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in art.

9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm) (image) 13-1 2 x 19-1/2 inches (plate) 18 x 23-1/2 inches (sheet) ...

The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...

As a critic of a relatively recent Muybridge show at the Tate, London, wrote: “They changed things forever and have come to symbolise modernity’s seismic and irreversible shifts in the ...

The project was inspired by a range of public touchpoints – from billboards to funfairs – as well as photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering motion ... the artist spoke about the draw to public ...

Eadweard Muybridge used a series of cameras to take multiple exposures of animals and people in motion. The resulting photographs capture his subjects’ changing positions in sharp focus and ...

Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer known for his groundbreaking ... Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in ...