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Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
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science · English photographer (1830–1904) · photographer · inventor · film director · film actor · bookseller · physicist · also Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Muggeridge, Eadweard James Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Helios
Born 9 April 1830 · Died 8 May 1904 · Q190568
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2026· 5 entries
“s protest against the Iraq war He chose Muybridge as inspiration because he wanted to start with”
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“I have a message for you from my wife”
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Public attention spiked: 2,862 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.1× the usual 314, with 0 article edits.
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Artnet news: Eadweard Muybridge
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2025· 1 entry
CBC.ca: How Eadweard Muybridge revolutionized photography and got away with murder
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2018· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured the motion of a horse to settle a bet and ended up capturing popular imagination
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2017· 2 entries
Creative Review: Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion exhibition
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(adapted from the first chapter of a later book) documents that Muybridge heavily edited and modified his photos, inserting clouds or the moon, even adding volcanos to his pictures for artistic effects
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2011).
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UK choreographer collaborated with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and artist Mark Wallinger on a piece titled Undance, inspired by Muybridge's "action verbs"
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2010· 3 entries
The Guardian: Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground
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The Guardian: Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
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The American painter Philip Pearlstein published an article in ARTnews suggesting the strong influences Muybridge's work and public lectures had on 20th-century artists, including Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Georges Seur
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2007· 1 entry
And was awarded "Best Documentary" in the Helsinki film Festival "Kettupäivät" the following year
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2004· 1 entry
A British Film Institute commemorative plaque was installed on the outside wall of the former Smith house, at Park View, 2 Liverpool Road
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1999· 1 entry
Converted a row of self-service laundry washing machines into sequential cameras in the style of Muybridge
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1993· 2 entries
The Canadian Centre for Architecture presented the exhibition Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850–1880
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The music video for U2's "Lemon", directed by Mark Neale, was filmed in black and white with a grid-like background as a tribute to Eadweard Muybridge
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1991· 1 entry
The Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, hosted a major exhibition of Muybridge's work, plus the works of many other artists who had been influenced by him
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1982· 1 entry
American composer Philip Glass would create an opera, The Photographer, with a libretto based in part on court transcripts from the case
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1944· 1 entry
Florado was hit by a car in Sacramento and killed
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1929· 1 entry
Published “Classics of Science: Muybridge on Attitudes of Animals” in The Science News-Letter — cited 1 times.
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1904· 2 entries
Died 1904-05-08.
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The year of his death, the Kingston Museum opened in his hometown, and continues to house a substantial collection of his works in a dedicated gallery
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1902· 1 entry
Published “Animals in motion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal progressive movements /” — cited 3 times.
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1896· 1 entry
Published “Correspondence” in The Library.
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1894· 1 entry
And continued to lecture extensively throughout Great Britain
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1893· 1 entry
Published “Descriptive zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular / by Eadweard Muybridge ; with selected outline tracings reduced from some of the illustrations of "Animal locomotion" an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, co” — cited 2 times.
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1891· 1 entry
Published “The science of animal locomotion (zoopraxography) : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements / by Eadward Muybridge ; executed and published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.” — cited 1 times.
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1888· 1 entry
The University of Pennsylvania donated an album of Muybridge's photographs, which featured students and Philadelphia Zoo animals, to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II, who had a keen interest in photograph
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1887· 1 entry
The photos were published as a massive collotype portfolio in 11 volumes, with 781 plates comprising 20,000 of the photographs, in a groundbreaking collection titled Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigati
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1884· 2 entries
Eakins briefly worked alongside Muybridge, to learn more about the application of photography to the study of human and animal motion
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And then continued his own independent motion studies, incorporating the findings into his artwork
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1883· 2 entries
Published “The attitudes of animals in motion” in Journal of the Franklin Institute — cited 6 times.
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Muybridge gave a lecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), arranged by artist Thomas Eakins and University of Pennsylvania trustee Fairman Rogers
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1882· 6 entries
Recorded the first series of live-action photos with a single camera by a method of chronophotography; influenced and was influenced by Muybridge's work
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Published “The horse in motion : as shown by instantaneous photography : with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera : in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion”.
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Published “The horse in motion : as shown by instantaneous photography, with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion” — cited 2 times.
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Published “The Horse in Motion” in Nature — cited 16 times.
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Published “The attitudes of animals in motion, illustrated with the zoopraxiscope / Eadweard Muybridge, of San Francisco.” — cited 3 times.
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Published “The horse in motion as shown by instantaneous photography, with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion” — cited 4 times.
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1881· 2 entries
That he "came to California in 1855, and most of the time since and all of the time since 1860 (
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Muybridge first visited Marey's studio in France and viewed stop-motion studies before returning to the US to further his own work in the same area
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1879· 1 entry
Muybridge continued with additional studies using 24 cameras, and published a very limited edition portfolio of the results
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1878· 1 entry
Muybridge made a notable 13-part 360° photographic panorama of San Francisco
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1876· 1 entry
Muybridge had the boy moved from a Catholic orphanage to a Protestant one and paid for his care
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1875· 1 entry
On a photography expedition in the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, the photographer advertised his works under the name "Eduardo Santiago Muybridge" in Guatemala
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1873· 2 entries
Muybridge managed to use a single camera to shoot a small and very fuzzy picture of the racehorse Occident running, at Union Park racetrack in Sacramento
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Muybridge was commissioned by the US Army to photograph the "Modoc War" dispute with the Native American tribe in northern California and Oregon
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1872· 2 entries
The former governor of California, Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, hired Muybridge for a portfolio depicting his mansion and other possessions, including his racehorse Occident
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Shows him sitting casually on a projecting rock over the Yosemite Valley, with 2,000 feet (610 m) of empty space below him
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1871· 1 entry
The United States Lighthouse Board hired Muybridge to photograph lighthouses of the American West Coast
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1869· 2 entries
And the development of steamships made travel much faster and less arduous than it was in 1860
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Patented a "sky shade" to reduce the tendency of intense blue sky light to bleach out the images of the blue-sensitive photographic emulsions of the time
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1868· 2 entries
Exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular stereographs of his work
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Muybridge was commissioned by the United States government to travel to the newly acquired United States territory of Alaska to photograph the Tlingit Native Americans, occasional Russian inhabitants, and dramatic landsc
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1867· 1 entry
A man with a markedly changed personality
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1865· 1 entry
Was one of the directors for the Austin Consolidated Silver Mines Company (limited) and for The Ottoman Company (limited)/The Bank of Turkey (limited), under his new name "Muybridge"
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1860· 1 entry
Planned a return trip to Europe, but suffered serious head injuries en route in a stagecoach crash in Texas
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1859· 2 entries
And it soon became clear that Edward planned to stop operating his bookstore business
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Was elected as one of the directors for the San Francisco Mercantile Library Association
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1850· 1 entry
In Muybridge's hometown, 100 yards from his childhood family home
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1833· 1 entry
Lived with their uncle Samuel in 1851, after the death of their father in 1843
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-04-09.
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