Sequential Images: Eadweard Muybridge research.

 Eadweard James Muybridge ( 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an english photographer, known for working with objects in motion and studying motion in phtography.

"Muybridge is known for his pioneering chronophotography of animal locomotion between 1878 and 1886, which used multiple cameras to capture the different positions in a stride; and for his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting painted motion pictures from glass discs that predated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography."

Galloping horse, by Muybridge (1887)

His most productive years (1883-1886) he produced over 10,000 images of animals in motion.

High-speed sequence of a pigeon in flight (1887)

In the year of his death (1904) in his hometown Kingston upon Thames the Kingston museum opened

and it is still housing and showing his works to this day. 

Kingston Museum in London, UK

In 1860, Eadweard suffered a severe head trauma from a stagecoach crash, after which he suffered amnesia. 

"He suffered from a bad headache, double vision, deafness, loss of taste and smell, and confusion. It was later claimed that his hair turned from black to grey in three days."

 After that incident it was documented that Eadweard's behavior changed.

"Friends and associates later stated that he had changed from a smart and pleasant businessman into an eccentric artist."

Photo of Vernal Falls at Yosemite by Eadweard Muybridge, 1872

In 1872, a race-owner and a businessman Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to document his mansion, posessions and horse races. Stanford wanted a proper picture of a horse in full speed galloping. There are rumors that Stanford made a bet that while galloping, horses never fully lift off all their legs off the ground, but Muybridge caught that moment on camera and 25,000$ was spent on the bets. But no evidence of such was found.

The Horse in Motion, by Muybridge 1878

In 1882-1893 Muybridge started more studies of animal and human motions in Philadelphia. The majority of his work was done in his outdoor studio, he photographed teachers, students, athletes, disabled patients and researched neurological movements using sequential images. He also borrowed animals from the Philadelphian zoo.

Animated sequence of a buffale galloping, 1887

The human models were usually either fully naked or barely clothed, the reason for that is to capture how the human body moves in detail.

Lawn tennis, serving, 1887

Boys playing Leapfrog, 1887

Muybridge died in 1904 in his hometown, Kingston upon Thames of prostate cancer.

"His body was cremated, and its ashes interred in a grave at Woking in Surrey. On the gravestone his name is misspelled as "Eadweard Maybridge"."

References:

Eadweard Muybridge (no date) Encyclopædia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eadweard-Muybridge (Accessed: 07 October 2023). 

Sacramento Daily Union, volume 48, number 7438, 5 February 1875 (no date) Sacramento Daily Union 5 February 1875 - California Digital Newspaper Collection. Available at: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18750205.2.26.2&srpos=70&e=-------en--20--61-byDA-txt-txIN-muybridge------- (Accessed: 07 October 2023).

Manjila, S. et al. (2015) Understanding Edward Muybridge: Historical review of behavioral alterations after a 19th-century head injury and their multifactorial influence on human life and culture, focus. Available at: https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/39/1/article-pE4.xml (Accessed: 07 October 2023).

Magazine, S. (no date) The Man Who Stopped Time, STANFORD magazine. Available at: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-man-who-stopped-time/ (Accessed: 07 October 2023).