Who is he?
Eadweard Muybridge (9th April 1830 - 8th May 1904) was an English photographer most notably known for his work on early motion-picture and photographic studies of motion. In 18874, he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyna, but was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. After this, he travelled for more than a year around Central America on a photographic expedition.
Animals and Humans in Motion
In July 1860, Muybridge suffered a serious head injury thanks to a stagecoach crash. He suffered double vision, confused thinking, impaired senses and other forms of psychological problems - these led to his later emotional and eccentric behaviour which freed him from the socially accepted forms of creativity.
In 1872, Leland Stanford (former governer of California) hired Muybridge to study the photofraphs of a horse and answer the question : "Are all four feet of a horse in the air at the same time when trotting?". He answered this with a photographic negative showing a horse airbone at trot.
His later device was named the an early movie projector as he managed to capture the motiion of the horse using the horse as the shutter. As the horse ran, the strings it ran through snapped and shut the lens. This allowed the sunlight to only access the backdrop for a split second, and once all these negatives were connected, the first view of a horses' trot waere revealed.
Muybridge's greatest feat occured in the 1880s, when he entrered a very productive state of mind and produced over 100,000 images of humans and animals, and captured some estatic images of movement the human eye cannot percieve on it's own.
His later years mainly consisted of lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion sequences, even travelling back to Europe to publicise and explain his work.
Eadweard Muybridge (9th April 1830 - 8th May 1904) was an English photographer most notably known for his work on early motion-picture and photographic studies of motion. In 18874, he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyna, but was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. After this, he travelled for more than a year around Central America on a photographic expedition.
Animals and Humans in Motion
In July 1860, Muybridge suffered a serious head injury thanks to a stagecoach crash. He suffered double vision, confused thinking, impaired senses and other forms of psychological problems - these led to his later emotional and eccentric behaviour which freed him from the socially accepted forms of creativity.
In 1872, Leland Stanford (former governer of California) hired Muybridge to study the photofraphs of a horse and answer the question : "Are all four feet of a horse in the air at the same time when trotting?". He answered this with a photographic negative showing a horse airbone at trot.
His later device was named the an early movie projector as he managed to capture the motiion of the horse using the horse as the shutter. As the horse ran, the strings it ran through snapped and shut the lens. This allowed the sunlight to only access the backdrop for a split second, and once all these negatives were connected, the first view of a horses' trot waere revealed.
Muybridge's greatest feat occured in the 1880s, when he entrered a very productive state of mind and produced over 100,000 images of humans and animals, and captured some estatic images of movement the human eye cannot percieve on it's own.
His later years mainly consisted of lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion sequences, even travelling back to Europe to publicise and explain his work.