Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard J. Muybridge: 9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904) was a British photographer of Dutch descent who spent most of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on the motion of animals used multiple cameras to capture motion, and zoopraksiskop, a device for projecting motion pictures through a perforated flexible film strip.


Early life and career

Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames, England on April 9, 1830. He emigrated to the United States, arrived in San Francisco in 1855, where he began his career as an agent of publishers and booksellers. He left San Francisco in the late 1860s, and after a stagecoach accident in which he received a severe head injury, returned to England for several years.
While recuperating back in England, he took photography seriously at times between 1861 and 1866, where he learned the Collodion process.


He reappears in San Francisco in 1866 and quickly became a success in photography, focusing mainly on landscape and architectural subjects, although his business card is also advertised his services to potret.Foto of her being sold by various photographic entrepreneurs Montgomery Street (especially companies from Bradley & Rulofson), the main commercial street of San Francisco, during those years.


Death

Eadweard Muybridge returned to his native England for good in 1894, published two further, popular books of his work, and died on May 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames while living at her cousin Catherine Smith, Park View, 2 Liverpool Road. The house has a commemorative plaque on the wall outside the British Film Institute which was inaugurated in 2004.Muybridge cremated and his ashes buried at Woking in Surrey.


Heritage


Many Muybridge photographic sequences have been published since 1950 as a reference book artist.  cartoon animator often uses Muybridge photos as a reference when drawing their characters. Since 1991, Optical Toys company has issued in the form of Muybridge sequences Flipbook film.


Filmmaker Thom Andersen made a documentary film titled 1974 Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, depicting the life and work.
Opera composer Philip Glass The Photographer of 1982 was based on Muybridge murder trial, with a libretto including text from a court transcript. A promotional music video featuring excerpts from the opera dramatizing the murder and trial, and includes a large number of images Muybridge.


A drama of Studies in Motion: The hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge made his debut in 2006, co-production between Vancouver Electric Company Theatre and Theatre University of British Columbia. While mixing fiction with fact, it tells the story of Muybridge's obsession with cataloging animal movement. Production began touring in 2010.


In 2007, Canadian poet Rob Winger Muybridge's Horse writing: a poem in three phases, a long poem was nominated for a Governor General Award for Literature, Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the Ottawa Book Award. It documented his obsession with style and 'poetic-photography'. It won the CBC Literary Award for Poetry.


In 1985, the music video for Larry Gowan single "(You're A) Strange Animal" prominently display d Rotoscope animation of Muybridge's work. In 1986, the order of galloping horses used in the background of John Farnham music video for the song "Pressure Down". In 1993, rock band U2 made a video of their song "Lemon" in tribute to Muybridge's techniques. In 2004, an electronic music group The Crystal Method made a music video for their song "Born Too Slow" based on the work of Muybridge, including a man walking in front of a background grid.

Kingston University in London, England has a building named in recognition of Muybridge's work as one of Britain's most influential photographers.