Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneering English photographer, revolutionized our understanding of motion with his groundbreaking chronophotography and early motion-picture projections.

ABOUT

Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, in 1830, Eadweard Muybridge's journey to becoming a photographic innovator was anything but straightforward. He immigrated to the United States at age 20, initially working as a bookseller in New York City and San Francisco. A severe head injury from a stagecoach crash in Texas in 1860 led him back to England for recuperation, where he took up professional photography, mastering the wet-plate collodion process. U…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Yosemite Falls 1868 · Cleveland Museum of Art Untitled (Landscape near Watsonville, California) 1870 · Cleveland Museum of Art Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford 1872 · Cleveland Museum of Art Emptying a Bucket of Water 1887 · Cleveland Museum of Art "Dread" Trotting 1887 · Cleveland Museum of Art California- Yosemite Valley 1860 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Influenced

Étienne-Jules MareyChronophotography