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 738 (Bactrian Camel), 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 738 (Bactrian Camel), 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 272 (Female Nude), 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 272 (Female Nude), 1887

Sale Date: October 16, 2019

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Animal Locomotion, Plat 686 (Deer), 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plat 686 (Deer), 1887

Sale Date: October 16, 2019

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Stooping and lifting water-jar, 1887

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Stooping and lifting water-jar, 1887

Sale Date: October 17, 2019

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Panorama of San Francisco from California..., 1877

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Panorama of San Francisco from California..., 1877

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Panorama of San Francisco from California..., 1877

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Panorama of San Francisco from California..., 1877

Sale Date: October 2, 2019

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Horse and Rider from Animal Locomotion,..., 1887

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Horse and Rider from Animal Locomotion,..., 1887

Sale Date: October 2, 2019

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 272 (Female Nude), 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 272 (Female Nude), 1887

Sale Date: June 19, 2019

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Yosemite

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Yosemite

Sale Date: May 4, 2019

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Horse and rider motion study (composite), 1881

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Horse and rider motion study (composite), 1881

Sale Date: April 18, 2019

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

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

Sale Date: April 18, 2019

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Animal Locomotion, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, 1887

Sale Date: April 17, 2019

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 275, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 275, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 333, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 333, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 590, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 590, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 116, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 116, 1887

Sale Date: April 2, 2019

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A selection of 4 plates from Animal..., 1887

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A selection of 4 plates from Animal..., 1887

Sale Date: February 21, 2019

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A selection of 12 plates from Animal..., 1887

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A selection of 12 plates from Animal..., 1887

Sale Date: February 21, 2019

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

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

Sale Date: February 21, 2019

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Nude woman ironing, leaning and standing, 1887

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Nude woman ironing, leaning and standing, 1887

Sale Date: January 29, 2019

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Nude man throws a ball or stone, 1887

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Nude man throws a ball or stone, 1887

Sale Date: January 29, 2019

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Child runs after a man, showing their..., 1887

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Child runs after a man, showing their..., 1887

Sale Date: January 29, 2019

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Trotting horse holding a bucket, 1887

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Trotting horse holding a bucket, 1887

Sale Date: January 29, 2019

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Woman fanning, dropping fan, stooping to..., 1887

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Woman fanning, dropping fan, stooping to..., 1887

Sale Date: January 29, 2019

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