Friday, November 1, 2013

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge
 
 
Eadweard James Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.He immigrated to the United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous. Muybridge is 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
 
 
Born: April 9, 1830, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Died: May 8, 1904, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Spouse: Flora Shallcross Stone (m. 1872–1875)
Movies: Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
Artwork: Mahomet from The Horse in Motion, More
Children: Florado Helios Muybridge
 
 

 Muybridge 

 

A series of photographs that changed the way human beings see.

 

Muybridge 2

 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Eadweard Muybridge - Sequence of bird in flight (1883 - 86)




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