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 ...
Using both the horse locomotion photographic studies of Eadweard Muybridge and footage of an early train wreck by Thomas A. Edison, each section is manipulated to study motion, experiments in ...
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 ...