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Two Nude Men Wrestling — Plate 547 by Eadweard Muybridge

1850–1889

Two Nude Men Wrestling — Plate 547

Eadweard Muybridge

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Two naked men lock together and the camera refuses to look away. Stripped of costumes and spectacle, wrestling becomes pure pressure: limbs, weight, resistance, and contact.

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Catalog titleAnimal Locomotion, Plate 547 — Two Nude Men Wrestling

Era1850–1889

ThemesMotion, Serial, Study, Wrestling

Rights / licensePublic Domain Mark 1.0 / no known copyright restrictions

Publication statusReady to Publish — Free

Publication noteWikimedia Commons identifies the 1887 work and its reproduction as public domain/free of known copyright restrictions.

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