Muybridge biography
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Eadweard Muybridge
American, born England
, Kingston upon Thames, England
, Kingston upon Thames, England
Biography
An accomplished bookseller, uppfinnare, and businessman, Eadweard Muybridge advanced both technical and aesthetic applications of the photography medium. Born Edward James Muggeridge in in Kingston upon Thames, England, Muybridge began his career in in San Francisco, photographing the West at a time when the nature of landscape itself took on new meaning as railroads, steamships, and rapid means of communication began to connect the world in unprecedented ways. In the ensuing years he reinterpreted landscape photography, surveyed the construction of railroads and the growth of San Francisco and other areas of the Pacific Coast, and documented the Modoc War and the landscape and architecture of huvud America.
Muybridge also used his camera to explore the potential of motion pictures. He devised techniques to freeze djur and human locomotion, to
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Eadweard Muybridge Collection
Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, in April as Edward James Muggeridge. He came to the United States in and worked for two publishing companies on the east coast until , when he moved to California and established a book store in San Francisco. In he set off on an extensive journey east through the United States and on to Europe, but was injured in a stagecoach accident in Texas. He spent some time in England recuperating and back in the States suing the stage coach company, but not all of his activities between and are known.
In he returned to California and commenced his photography career, focusing for the next six years on California and the Far West. He traveled in Central America and Panama during to ; and in and he completed his panorama of San Francisco.
Muybridge worked closely with Senator Leland Stanford on experiments to record horses in motion, trying first to answer the question of whether or not all four fe
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Eadweard Muybridge
English photographer (–)
Eadweard Muybridge | |
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Muybridge in | |
| Born | Edward James Muggeridge ()9 April Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England |
| Died | 8 May () (aged&#;74) Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England |
| Resting place | Woking, Surrey, England |
| Known&#;for | Photography |
| Notable work | The Horse in Motion |
| Patron(s) | Leland Stanford |
Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April &#;– 8 May , born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic.[1] A noted photographer in the 19th century American West, he photographed Yosemite, San Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. He also made hi