Eadweard Muybridge

Produce a short biography of Eadweard Muybridge using the headings below:

1. When did he live?
 born :
9 April 1830 

died :
8 May 1904 (aged 74)


2. Where did he live?
woking, surrey, England.


3. What did he look like?
long breed, very skinny and white.





4. What sort of work did he produce and how?

photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.

At age 20, he immigrated to America, first to New York, as a bookseller, and then to San Francisco. He returned to England in 1861, and took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Francisco in 1867, and in 1868 his large photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous. 

5. What is he  of most known for in the history photography?
 pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion instop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.


Include examples of his work. These could be videos or images. Make sure that you cite any sources you have used, text and images.