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Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He earned his placed in history mainly as the godfather of moving pictures the man who first captured instantaneous motion on film and project it on a screen though the invention of modern movie technology was done by other hands. Muybridge was, however, a more complex and mysterious figure than one would gather from the film histories. Born in England as Edward Muggeridge, he changed his name, his country, and perhaps his character. He traveled widely, became an eminent still photographer in San Francisco, and figured in a sensational trial for the murder of his young wifes lover a dashing major. (Muybridge got off.) The author of this biographical study spent 0 years tracing Muybridges curious career. He untangles different versions of Muybridges work for Governor Leland Stanford, intended to settle an apocryphal $25,000 wager as to whether a trotting horse can have all four feet off the ground at once. By devising a bank of sequentially triggered still cameras, Muybridge settled the question (in the affirm

Author

Robert Bartlett Haas; Eadweard Muybridge

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520024649

Subjects

Photography, Literary Fiction, Arts

Rating

2.3 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14