My animation, and Eadweard Muybride!

Eadweard Muybridge

(Edward James Muggeridge)

Was an English photographer(1830-1904) known for his pioneering work on “animal locomotion” which used multiple cameras to capture motion.

·      In San Francisco in 1866 rapidly he became successful in photography, focusing on landscapes and architectural subjects.

·      Muybridge claimed that he first employed this mechanism, which he called a zoopraxiscope, in the fall of 1879, at Sanford's house. A subsequent demonstration of the projector at Marey's studio in 1881 was described in Parisian news- papers.

·      Muybridge's work in the synthesis of motion was soon forgotten. He was the first to admit that his technique had been superseded, and to give credit to Edison for his perfection of the zoopraxiscope.  

·      Muybridge's work was specifically created for the purpose of stopping action. It was analytical; he strove to freeze motion, to hold still for our contemplation the most rapid muscular movements of man and beast.

·      His pioneering came in the form of using still photos to capture motion.

·      Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras.

Ten facts on Edward Muggeridge:
1.

He changed his name more than his facial hair.

2.

He was acquitted for the Murder of his wife’s lover.

3.

He created two panoramas of San Francisco, one seventeen foot long.

4.

 Francis Bacon owned four copies of Humans in Motion.

5.

 Muybridge also documented a Baboon in motion.

6.

He changed his first name to conform to the Saxon spelling and a possible Spanish lineage; he became "Eadweard." 

7.

He found work as a commission merchant, initially for the London Printing and Publishing Company

8.

Muybridge was a good businessman who, in just a few years, had set himself up nicely.

9.

Muybridge was well known on the lecture circuit, not only in California, but on the East Coast and in Europe. He continued his studies of animal motion, and displayed the zoopraxiscope at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

10.

In his last years, he returned to Kingston-on-Thames where he died on May 8, 1904. The Washington Post,concluded that Muybridge "showed the world how people and animals actually move and permanently altered our perception of time and space."