✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Eadweard Muybridge|158/1000

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Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward James Muggeridge, was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and early motion-picture projection [1]. He was born on April 9, 1830, in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, and passed away on May 8, 1904, in Kingston upon Thames [1].

Early Life and Career:

Muybridge immigrated to the United States as a young man and initially worked as a bookseller in New York City and later in San Francisco [1].

In 1860, he suffered serious head injuries in a stagecoach crash in Texas and spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography and learned the wet-plate collodion process [1].

Muybridge returned to San Francisco in 1867 and began exhibiting large photographs of Yosemite Valley, which gained him popularity [1].

Photographic Studies of Motion:

Muybridge is best known for his pioneering work in chronophotography, capturing motion through a series of photographs. His most famous study was on the locomotion of horses, commissioned by Leland Stanford to prove that all four legs of a trotting horse are off the ground simultaneously at a certain moment [1].

He used multiple cameras to capture different positions in a stride, creating a groundbreaking visual record of animal locomotion [1].

Muybridge also invented the zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures from glass discs, which predated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography [1].

Later Years and Legacy:

In his later years, Muybridge gave public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and motion picture sequences, traveling frequently in England and Europe to showcase his work [1].

He edited and published compilations of his work, which greatly influenced visual artists and the fields of scientific and industrial photography [1].