1800–1877 · United Kingdom · Photographer
William Henry Fox Talbot
Early calotype studies of buildings, objects and light at Lacock Abbey.
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PHOTOGRAPHER · 1830–1904 · UNITED KINGDOM
Eadweard Muybridge
Sequential studies of motion made with banks of cameras.
- Born
- 1830
- Died
- 1904
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1878The Horse in Motion
- 1887Animal Locomotion
WHY THEY MATTER
Pioneer of motion photography and precursor of cinema; his zoopraxiscope projected moving images; his archive is held by Kingston Museum and major U.S. collections.
THE LIFE
Muybridge was an English photographer who did most of his work in the United States. In 1878 he used a row of cameras to capture a galloping horse, showing that all four hooves leave the ground at once. He went on to make thousands of sequential studies of people and animals, published as Animal Locomotion. His zoopraxiscope, which projected moving images, was an important forerunner of cinema.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Zoopraxiscope (projection device he invented)
Also born in Before 1850
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