Horses in Motion

"We think the representation to be unimpeachable, until we throw all our preconceived impressions on one side, and seek the truth by independent observations from Nature herself."

-Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was a photographer who pioneered studies in motion and motion picture projection.

When Muybridge was 20 he immigrated to America, from England, as a bookseller, first to New York and then San Francisco.

After serious head trauma, Muybridge invented the Collodion Process, where you have to expose and develop film within 15 minutes, requiring portable dark room or the field. He was able to secure a patent for his invention.

In 1876, he was living in San Fransisco and his photographs of Yosemite made him world-famous.

In 1877-78, Muybridge used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures. In the 1880’s he produced over 100,00 pictures of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements.

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