Eadweard Muybridge: Early Sequences of Horses

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer. He was most known for his pioneering work in the photographic studies of motion and the early works of motion picture projection.

When Muybridge was 20, he emigrated to America. Later he planned a return trip back to Europe in 1860. Whilst Muybridge was in America he suffered serious head injuries in a crash in Texas. Muybridge spent the next few years recovering back in England, this is where he took up professional photography. He later returned to San Fransisco in 1867 and in 1868 his photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous.

Today, Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877. He achieved this by using numerous camera to capture motion in stop-motion. Muybridge used a zoopraxiscope to project motion pictures on flexible film used in cinematography. In the 1880's, Muybridge produced over 100,000 photographs of humans and animals in motion in which the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements.

Edweard Muybridge capture subjects in time through the use of multiple cameras wich have a piece of string connected to the shutter release so that when the subject hit the string it set the shutter of to capture the image.He used this process to answer his question of whether all 4 of a horse legs are off the ground when running.

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