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 ...

Tireless inventor, creator of motion photography ... If you enjoy sending cat gifs, thank Mr. Muybridge. His device, conceived 16 years before the first screening by the Lumière brothers ...

Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomes entangled in railroad ... lapse photography and the mechanical ability to capture motion. Critically-acclaimed cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang ...

The technique, called chronophotography, along with Muybridge's work, were the founding concepts for motion picture cameras and projectors. In 1888 in New York City, the great inventor Thomas ...