Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was born in the early 1800's.  He was a photographer working in a lot of landscape before starting as a war and government photographer. His work was very progressive and ahead of it's time. He also discovered and was the pioneer in motion pictures. With his work in sequencing picture he studied motion of people and animals using multiple photographs and cameras in the process. He would later be acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover who was the true father of his son.
I think his work as whole is very interesting just in the massive amount of photographs that he took. He took a whole book of photographs that were just people moving and doing simple everyday tasks, and that was just one of his books. I'm very impressed by just the dedication that he had to his work.
First of all I find it very odd that most of the people that he photographed were nude. I understand why it could have been misinterpreted as pornographic or scandalous. I do understand though that being  nude in the photograph give more of a visual of the motion and muscle movement in the photographs. I had so many choices for photographs but they are all pretty much the same of wither being an animal or a person performing some sort of motion. I'm curious as to how much time it must have taken with the technology to take each sequence of photographs even with multiple camera.












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