Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)Muybridge was born in Britain as Edward James Muggeridge, but lived for many years in the USA as Eadweard Muybridge. He was the first photographer to capture the movement of people and animals in photo sequencesPhoto sequenceA photo sequence is a series of motion photographs depicting a single action from start to finish. The word 'sequence' derives from the Latin sequentia, 'that which follows'. The photographer Eadweard Muybridge made hundreds of photo sequences of people and animals, to study and illustrate their movement.. In the 1870s he began taking pictures of galloping horses. He experimented with a special shutter and an arrangement of 12 or 24 cameras in a row. Muybridge developed a method to project photographs onto a screen as 'moving pictures'. He made many photographic series (more than 100,000 photos). Some of them appeared in his book 'Animal Locomotion' (1887). For artists the photos were an eye-opener: they revealed that certain movements had until then been portrayed wrongly. |
