Eadweard Muybridge was born in a family of merchants in Kingston upon thames in England on the ninth of April 1830. he died in the year 1903, muybridge would emigrate to America, change his name multiple times, he died from brain damage in a carriage accident, he would also be acquitted for the murder of major Harry Larkyns, his wife lover and the true father of his son floored helios Muybridge.
Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop motion photographs, and his zoopraxtiscope, a device for projecting motion pictured that pre dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography. in the 1880s he entered a very productive period at the university of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements.
Muybridge was a big part in the development of instantaneous photography. To accomplish his famous motion sequences photography, Muybridge even designed his own high speed electronic shutter and electronic timer to be used alongside battery of up to twenty four cameras. while Muybridge's motion sequence helped revolutionise still photography.
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