The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...

Thus begins the fascinating adventure of Eadweard James Muybridge (1830-1904), a man who ... elephants, ostriches, birds... And also with humans in the most unlikely poses. Dressed and naked.

Eadweard Muybridge used a series of cameras to take ... The design of the piece looks like the shape of a bird's wing in flight as well as echoing the movement that would be present as the hair ...

Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomes entangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford's delusions of grandeur. Tasked with proving Stanford's belief that ...