Eadweard muybridge photography
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Animated sequence of a race horse galloping.
Eadweard muybridge photography
Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge
On April 9, 1830, English photographer Eadweard James Muybridge was born. Muybridge is best known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.
Eadweard Muybridge Background
Eadweard Muybridge was born as Edward Muggeridge in in Kingston upon Thames.
He emigrated to the United States at the age of 25, arriving in San Francisco1855. The city was booming and still understood as the ‘capital’ of the Gold Rush. He started a career as a bookseller and publisher’sagent there but it is also believed that he spent a lot of time in New York City.
While traveling back to England in 1860, the stagecoach in which he was riding had a serious accident and all of the pass