Eadweard Muybridge
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He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic. A noted photographer in the 19th century American West, he photographed Yosemite, San Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. He also made his early "moving" picture studies in California.
Born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, at the age of 20 he emigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, then to San Francisco. In 1860, he planned a return trip to Europe, but suffered serious head injuries en route in a stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography, learned the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He returned to San Francisco in 1867, a man with a markedly changed personality. In 1868, he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular stereographs of his work.
In 1874, Muybridge shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, but was acquitted, in a controversial jury trial, on the grounds of justifiable homicide. In 1875, he travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition.
Muybridge is known for his pioneering chronophotography of animal locomotion between 1878 and 1886, which used multiple cameras to capture the different positions in a stride; and for his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting painted motion pictures from glass discs that predated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography. From 1883 to 1886, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, occasionally capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate moments in time.
In his later years, Muybridge gave many public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences, travelling frequently in England and Europe to publicise his work in cities such as London and Paris. He also edited and published compilations of his work (some of which are still in print today), which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography. He retired to his native England permanently in 1894. In 1904, the year of his death, the Kingston Museum opened in his hometown, and continues to house a substantial collection of his works in a dedicated gallery. Provided by Wikipedia
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Muybridge's Complete human and animal locomotion : all 781 plates from the 1887 Animal locomotion / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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The male and female figure in motion : 60 classic photographic sequences / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Muybridge's Complete human and animal locomotion : all 781 plates from the 1887 Animal locomotion / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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The male and female figure in motion : 60 classic photographic sequences / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Animal locomotion an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Animals in motion an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Panoramic San Francisco from California Street hill, 1877. by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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The human figure in motion an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Muybridge's Complete human and animal locomotion : all 781 plates from the 1887 Animal locomotion / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular / by Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
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The horse in motion : as shown by instantaneous photography, with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the the... by Stillman, J. D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819-1888
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Développement de la méthode graphique par l'emploi de la photographie by Marey, Etienne-Jules, 1830-1904
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Helios : Eadweard Muybridge in a time of change / by Brookman, Philip
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Eadweard Muybridge and the photographic panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880 / by Harris, David, 1950-
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Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's Illustrations of Central America / by Wolfe, Byron, 1967-, Brady, Scott (Geographer)
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