Thus begins the fascinating adventure of Eadweard James Muybridge (1830-1904), a man who was nobody until he became almost everything. Tireless inventor, creator of motion photography, father of ...

Image courtesy of Beetles+Huxley Muybridge was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in London in 1830 but emigrated to America when he was 20. While he is thought to have taken up photography while recovering ...

The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues. Stanford contended that at some point in a ...

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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 ...

The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues. Stanford contended that at some point in a ...

Eadweard Muybridge used a series of cameras to take multiple exposures of animals and people in motion. The resulting photographs capture his subjects’ changing positions in sharp focus and ...