Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge lived from 1830 to 1904 and gained worldwide recognition for photographing animal and human movement. He was hired by railroad baron Leland Stanford in 1872 and used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. Much of his later career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, producing thousands of images that capture progressive movements within fractions of a second. Muybridge made these discoveries at the university from 1884 and 1887. For a century, historians considered these photographs as scientific evidence of bodies in motion. Unfortunately, the recent rediscovery of Muybridge’s work proves that he freely edited his photos to achieve the final…

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…

ancestors establishments in Massachusetts. His father, Moses (b 1832) was a successful clothing merchant in Easthampton, Mass. and with his wife, Harriet (b 1830 née Dibble), gave Charles four siblings. When still very young his parents relocated to Philadelphia where he would eventually attend the University of Pennsylvania and then Harvard. He obtained his MD from U of Pennsylvania specializing in microphotography. This interest in photography was bolstered earlier when he was a graduate…

I have learned that the structure of all three these photographer’s websites are more important then the actual designs, this is not to say that they don’t put effort into their work. There portfolios make each artist work unique to fit their own, they each have a large selection of images with a good balance which shows that they are not amateur photographers. They all seem to commit to high quality and quantity work, and it seem to be a collection of their best. There creations…

Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward Muggeridge, is regarded as the father of motion picture. He was born in England as Edward Muggeridge, but later changed his name to the current Eadweard Muybridge. He was unsatisfied with his life in England and decided to move to San Francisco, United States. Once in the States, he first started off as a bookseller. Quickly after though, he took up photography and studies with a daguerreotypist. His most famous work started after Leland Stanford, former governor…

Although only briefly mentioned in the course text book, Photo Sequence of Racehorse (1884-1885) created by Eadweard Muybridge is the second work deserving enough to be preserved at all costs. Edgar Degas’ paintings of racehorses were inspired by Muybridge’s experiments with stop-action photography. Degas was able to examine the anatomy and movement of a racehorse through the photographs taken by Muybridge. It wasn’t just artists influenced by Muybridge’s photo experiments. The world of art,…

the motion that is portrayed is not real motion. The motion is created through a freeze flash that makes it possible for the motion to seem continuous. The history of photography states that in order to create the motion there is a ?series of still images that are projected at a speed of twenty-four frames per second, which makes the action seem continuous? (Getlein, 2008). In history this is portrayed by Eadweard Muybridges photo titled, ?Horse Galloping.? Muybridges set up twenty-four cameras…

Rebecca Solnit illustrated the development of new technologies during the 1800s in “The Annihilation of Time and Space,” which is excerpted from her interesting historical book, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. In the article, Solnit argued the invention of photography, railroad, and telegraphy, which greatly impact people’s life by changing time and space. Through the paper, Solnit used other historical scholarships as evidence to support her thoughts. The…

Sallie galloping on a horse is series of photographs done as a photographic experiment, done by Muybridge June 15, 1878. The sequences consist of 24 photographs shot in quick secession that were exposed on a zoopraxiscope. Muybridge constructed the first zoopraxiscope, which presented the “motion picture” for the first time. The photographs are sometimes cited as an early silent film, these photos and other experiments like Muybridge’s were the forerunners of early motion films. Former…

Benedict Cumberbatch has a lot on his plate right now. Two movies filming, two movies in pre-production, one in post-production, and one film that has just been announced. He is also rumored to have a part in "Zoolander 2", which is in post-production, and also has a "Sherlock" Christmas special that airs this year on Christmas Day. The two films Cumberbatch has in pre-production are "Doctor Strange" and "The Current War". "Doctor Strange" is based off the Marvel comic series created by Steve…