Sequential Images: Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer (1830-1904) known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. As we have been creating and looking into sequential images, Eadweard Muybridge work has been a great example

Eadweard Muybridge: running at full speed

These images clearly shows us what happens to the human body when it is at its full potential while running. The contractions of the muscles, the movement of the legs which goes with the movements of the arms, etc.

Muybridge devised techniques to freeze animal and human locomotion, to depict movement as sequences of still images, and to reanimate these in some of the first projected moving pictures.( SFMOMA, 2023)

Attitude of animals in motion

In 1872, Leland Stanford, former governor of California and president of the Central Pacific Railroad, asked Eadweard Muybridge to photograph a horse galloping at full speed. This simple request, intended to confirm Stanford’s theory that all of the horse’s feet were off the ground simultaneously at some point during its stride, launched Muybridge on a lifelong pursuit to record animals in motion.

He developed an ingenious method of stop-action photography: a battery of twenty-four cameras triggered either at timed intervals or as the horse’s legs tripped a wire suspended above the ground. The result was a sequence of discrete images representing postures previously invisible to the human eye. (American, E.M.B.References )

Reference

- Muybridge, Eadweard (2023) SFMOMA. Available at: https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/eadweard_muybridge/#:~:text=Muybridge%20also%20used%20his%20camera,the%20first%20projected%20moving%20pictures. (Accessed: 08 October 2023).

- American, E.M.B. and (no date) Eadweard Muybridge: Attitudes of animals in motion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Available at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/700109 (Accessed: 08 October 2023).

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