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 ...

If you enjoy sending cat gifs, thank Mr. Muybridge. His device, conceived 16 years before the first screening by the Lumière brothers, allowed the development of the early cinema. When he ...

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 ...