Eye’s Planet Phenomena: Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is most famous for his split-second studies of motion which began in 1872 with an attempt to capture the movement of a galloping horse. By 1877 he had developed a technique to place 12 cameras in a row to capture each stage of the horse’s movement. His books Animal Locomotion and The Human Figure in Motion was groundbreaking and made systematic studies of movement, and inspired artists in the twentieth century such as Francis Bacon. Later Muybridge experimented with a device to create moving images from still photographs, making him a pioneer of cinematography.

He was the man who invented the moving pictures.

He bridged the gap between art,science,and technology with with his thousands of sequences of motion photographs.

He was the conceptual father of cinema and TV,said Brian Clegg