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, Plate 553, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 553, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 548, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 548, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 44, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 44, 1887

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Valley of the Yosemite, from Sandy Flat

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Valley of the Yosemite, from Sandy Flat

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Panorama of San Francisco from California St, 1877

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Panorama of San Francisco from California St, 1877

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 741, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 741, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 682, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 682, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 540, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 540, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 282, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 282, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 266, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 266, 1887

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Animal Locomotive, Plate 598, 1887

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Animal Locomotive, Plate 598, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 642, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 642, 1887

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 261 (Woman Getting into

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 261 (Woman Getting into

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Selected images from

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Selected images from "Animal Locomotion", 1884–1887

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A selection of 11 plates from the classic..., 1887

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A selection of 11 plates from the classic..., 1887

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A selection of 10 plates from Animal..., 1887

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A selection of 10 plates from Animal..., 1887

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Cottonwood Bend, 1872

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Cottonwood Bend, 1872

Sale Date: December 6, 2019

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Plate 15 (Nude Woman Walking), from Animal..., 1887

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Plate 15 (Nude Woman Walking), from Animal..., 1887

Sale Date: January 23, 2020

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 175 (Skipping..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 175 (Skipping..., 1887

Sale Date: December 12, 2019

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Animal locomotion», Plate 302, Femme à la..., 1887

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Animal locomotion», Plate 302, Femme à la..., 1887

Sale Date: November 22, 2019

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Tisayac, Valley of the Yo-Semite

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Tisayac, Valley of the Yo-Semite

Sale Date: April 7, 2017

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Valley of the Yosemite from Union Point, 1872

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Valley of the Yosemite from Union Point, 1872

Sale Date: November 9, 2019

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Animal Locomotion 1887. Pl. 160., 1887

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Animal Locomotion 1887. Pl. 160., 1887

Sale Date: November 7, 2019

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 175 (Skipping..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion: Plate 175 (Skipping..., 1887

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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