Eadweard Muybridge
British born American photographer, 1830–1904
Between 1877 and 1884, Muybridge captured groundbreaking images of a horse in motion, using multiple cameras and proving that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground. His photographs, commissioned by California governor and race-horse owner, Leland Stanford, immediately influenced how artists depicted horses in motion. In the 1880s he continued working with multiple cameras to make the series of stop-motion photographs of humans and animals in motion that would become his book Animal Locomotion. In 1887-88 he worked at University of Pennsylvania, where one of his collaborators was the painter Thomas Eakins. Muybridge also invented the zoopraxiscope, which allowed him to project his photographs in sequence, creating an early form of motion picture.
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French painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1884–1974
American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960
British photographer, 1815–1879
French painter and etcher, 1828–1893
American illustrator and portraitist, 1889-–1980
