Eadweard Muybridge

(American/British, 1830–1904)

Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer known for his groundbreaking work in the field of motion-picture projection. Using multiple cameras, Muybridge famously captured the gait of a trotting horse, then with a device of his own invention, the zoopraxiscope, projected a moving image. “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence,” the photographer once said. Born Edward James Muggeridge on April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, he emigrated to the United States at the age of 20. In 1855, he adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge as he believed it sounded more Anglo-Saxon. Having been in America for a decade, it was on his way to New York to sail back to England, that he suffered a serious head injury in a stagecoach accident. From 1862 and 1866, while recuperating in England, Muybridge taught himself several photography techniques. Set on making a living through photography, he returned to San Francisco in 1867. Here he successfully marketed large-scale photos of the Yosemite Valley, which gained him national attention. Through the 1870s and 1880s, while being tried for the murder of his wife’s lover, Muybridge perfected his photographic studies of animal locomotion. He was later acquitted of murder, on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Notably, the young painter Thomas Eakins worked as an assistant to Muybridge, during his time at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1894, he returned to England, and lived out his life lecturing throughout the country until his death on May 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom. Today, Muybridge’s works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.

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Animal Locomotion, pl. 666 (Petite fille sur , 1887

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Animal Locomotion, pl. 666 (Petite fille sur , 1887

Sale Date: November 9, 2012

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Animal Locomotion, Nellie Rose Trotting..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Nellie Rose Trotting..., 1887

Sale Date: September 19, 2012

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Animal Locomotion, Elberon Walking Saddled, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Elberon Walking Saddled, 1887

Sale Date: September 19, 2012

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Plates 364 and 775 (from Animal Locomotion) (2...

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Plates 364 and 775 (from Animal Locomotion) (2...

Sale Date: September 19, 2012

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Plates 247 and 407 (from Animal Locomotion) (2...

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Plates 247 and 407 (from Animal Locomotion) (2...

Sale Date: September 19, 2012

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Plate 698 (Gazelle) and Plate 750 (Tree..., 1887

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Plate 698 (Gazelle) and Plate 750 (Tree..., 1887

Sale Date: September 7, 2012

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Plate 307 (Discus Throw) and Plate 536..., 1887

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Plate 307 (Discus Throw) and Plate 536..., 1887

Sale Date: September 7, 2012

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Plate 581 from animal locomotion, 1887

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Plate 581 from animal locomotion, 1887

Sale Date: June 19, 2012

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Lion Walking, Plate 721, 1887

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Lion Walking, Plate 721, 1887

Sale Date: May 22, 2012

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Animal Locomotion, Female (Jumping From..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Female (Jumping From..., 1887

Sale Date: May 30, 2012

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Animal locomotion, pl. 442, 1887

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Animal locomotion, pl. 442, 1887

Sale Date: May 3, 2012

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Animal locomotion, pl. 462, 1887

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Animal locomotion, pl. 462, 1887

Sale Date: May 3, 2012

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Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford, 1872

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Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford, 1872

Sale Date: April 23, 2012

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Animal locomotion, fencers, plate 350, 1887

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Animal locomotion, fencers, plate 350, 1887

Sale Date: March 20, 2012

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The horse in motion (Composite), 1878

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The horse in motion (Composite), 1878

Sale Date: April 4, 2012

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The high Sierra from glacier rock, 1872

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The high Sierra from glacier rock, 1872

Sale Date: February 28, 2012

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Horse pl.574 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

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Horse pl.574 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

Sale Date: June 25, 2006

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Horse pl.564 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

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Horse pl.564 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

Sale Date: June 25, 2006

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Horse pl.645 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

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Horse pl.645 (from Animal locomotion), 1887

Sale Date: June 25, 2006

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Animal locomotion (Woman in Victorian dress..., 1887

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Animal locomotion (Woman in Victorian dress..., 1887

Sale Date: November 19, 2006

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Animal locomotion (Woman with wash bucket &..., 1887

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Animal locomotion (Woman with wash bucket &..., 1887

Sale Date: November 19, 2006

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Animal locomotion (Woman in Sunday clothes)..., 1887

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Animal locomotion (Woman in Sunday clothes)..., 1887

Sale Date: November 19, 2006

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Animal locomotion (woman sitting) pl.518, 1887

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Animal locomotion (woman sitting) pl.518, 1887

Sale Date: November 19, 2006

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Cockatoo (from Animal locomotion) (+ 9..., 1887

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Cockatoo (from Animal locomotion) (+ 9..., 1887

Sale Date: December 13, 2011

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