Eadweard Muybridge, ‘Acajutla’, 1877, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
image: 13.7 x 24 cm (5 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)  overall: 24.9 x 33.3 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/8 in.)

About Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, originally a landscape and architectural photographer, is primarily known for his groundbreaking images of animals and people in motion. In 1872, a racehorse owner hired Muybridge to prove that galloping horses hooves were never all fully off the ground at the same time, a proposition that Muybridge's images would disprove. One of his main working methods was to rig a series of large cameras in a line to shoot images automatically as the animals passed. Viewed in a Zoopraxiscope machine, his images laid the foundation for motion pictures and contemporary cinematography.

British, 1830-1904, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

Group Shows on Artsy

The Serial Attitude, Eykyn Maclean, New York
Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Wild West: Plains to the Pacific, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Photography and America’s National Parks, George Eastman Museum, Rochester