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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Baseball, catching. Plate 280, from the..., 1885

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Baseball, catching. Plate 280, from the..., 1885

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Running and jumping with skipping rope...., 1885

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Running and jumping with skipping rope...., 1885

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Selected images from "Animal..., 1884–1887

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Plates 58, 81 and 434 from

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Plates 58, 81 and 434 from "Animal..., 1887

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A selection of 7 plates from Animal..., 1887

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A selection of 7 plates from Animal..., 1887

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Plates 158 and 681 from the Animal..., 1887

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Plates 158 and 681 from the Animal..., 1887

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Plates 290 and 309 from

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Plates 290 and 309 from "Animal Locomotion"

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Selected Images (from Animal Locomotion), 1887

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Selected Images (from Animal Locomotion), 1887

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Plate 305 from Animal Locomotion, 1887

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Plate 305 from Animal Locomotion, 1887

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Plate 284 from Animal Locomotion, 1887

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Plate 284 from Animal Locomotion, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 549, 1887, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 549, 1887, 1887

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Animal Locomotion: Plates 314 and 510, 1887

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Animal Locomotion: Plates 314 and 510, 1887

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Untitled, Plate 374, from

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Untitled, Plate 374, from "Animal..., 1887

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Plate 268 from "Animal Locomotion", 1887, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 777, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 777, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 759, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 759, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 707, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 707, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 458, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 458, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 197, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 197, 1887

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Plates 158 and 681 from the Animal..., 1887

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Plates 158 and 681 from the Animal..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 78, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 78, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 701, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 701, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 625, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 625, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 559, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 559, 1887

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