Eadweard Muybridge (, originally Edward James Muggeridge) is one of the most important pioneers in photography and photo technology. Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames near London and grew up in rather simple circumstances. He emigrated to the United States in the early s and initially lived in New York City, and since in San Francisco. From on he worked here as a successful bookseller for the “London Printing and Publishing Company”. Now he is also starting to change the spelling of his last name several times. On the way to Europe, Muybridge suffers a serious head injury in a stage coach accident, which he gets treated in England from on.
It is probably in England that Muybridge deals more intensively with the young technique of photography. After returning to San Francisco in , he is able to start his own business as a photographer. His first major photo expedition takes him to the Yosemite Valley, just over kilometers away, in the same year.
Muybridge was innovative early on and starts to develop new techniques and methods, for example to be able to react to specific lighting conditions. Already in he receives his first government contract to docu
Eadweard Muybridge
| English photographer Date of Birth: Country: Great Britain |
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- Biography of Eadweard Muybridge
- Early Life and Career
- The Horse in Motion
- Expanding the Study of Motion
- Later Life and Legacy
Biography of Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer who developed a system for capturing the sequence of movements of humans and animals through a series of photographs taken at specific time intervals. He also invented a special device called the "zoopraxiscope," which rapidly projected individual images one after another, creating the illusion of movement.
Early Life and Career
Muybridge was born on April 9, , in Kingston upon Thames, England. In , he moved to the United States, where he photographed views of the Pacific coast on behalf of the American government and worked as a photographer on an expedition to Alaska. By , Muybridge had become a successful professional photographer when he met philanthropist Leland Stanford, who claimed that a galloping horse lifts all four legs off the ground simultaneously. With Stanford's financial support, Muybridge attempted to prove this theory through photography.
The
The Man Who Stopped Time
The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography.
His work is iconic: the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their derivate use somewhere in today's media. And if most of us have seen Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema and television.
But it is his personal life that possesses all the ingredients of a classic non-fiction best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic advances and discoveries, one hotly following on another; th
Many thanks to the curator of Kingston Museum, Seoyoung Kim, for all her help. Modern photographs by the author. You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer (and the museum where appropriate) and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or to the Victorian Web in a print document. Click on the images to enlarge them.
Eadweard Muybridge, by Richard Taylor, after Thomas Walter Wilson.
The Illustrated London News 25 May , Courtesy
© National Portrait Gallery London (D).
adweard James Muybridge (–) is famous for having captured the earliest scenes of horses and other animals (including humans) in motion. He was born in the busy market town of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, on 9 April , as the second son of John and Susannah Muggeridge, and baptised at All Saints' church a short walk away. There, he was given the more prosaic name of Edward James Muggeridge. Young Edward's father was a corn-chandler with a sideline in selling coal for barges, and his mother came from a barge-owning family at Hampton Wick, on the other side of the river. The family lived on the two floors above t
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The Man Who Stopped Time
The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography.
His work is iconic: the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their derivate use somewhere in today's media. And if most of us have seen Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema and television.
But it is his personal life that possesses all the ingredients of a classic non-fiction best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic advances and discoveries, one hotly following on another; th
Many thanks to the curator of Kingston Museum, Seoyoung Kim, for all her help. Modern photographs by the author. You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer (and the museum where appropriate) and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or to the Victorian Web in a print document. Click on the images to enlarge them.
Eadweard Muybridge, by Richard Taylor, after Thomas Walter Wilson.
The Illustrated London News 25 May , Courtesy
© National Portrait Gallery London (D).
adweard James Muybridge (–) is famous for having captured the earliest scenes of horses and other animals (including humans) in motion. He was born in the busy market town of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, on 9 April , as the second son of John and Susannah Muggeridge, and baptised at All Saints' church a short walk away. There, he was given the more prosaic name of Edward James Muggeridge. Young Edward's father was a corn-chandler with a sideline in selling coal for barges, and his mother came from a barge-owning family at Hampton Wick, on the other side of the river. The family lived on the two floors above t
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