Eadweard Muybridge was the first photographer to capture motion with still images, create a new medium, and invention. His first work of art capturing motion was his piece called “Cantering, Saddled” on December of 1878. Printed on collotype, a method of printing high-quality prints by using hardened gelatin without the use of a screen, on 19x24 ⅛ inch sheet, can now be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Collotype uses heat and cold water treated dichromate-sensitized gelatin which is exposed to sunlight and allows multiple prints to be printed. The series of compiled images show the stages of a horse galloping. After Muybridge was acquitted of a murder he plead guilty to, he was hired by the founder of Stanford University to settle
