Eadweard Muybridge is an English photographer (1830-1904). He emigrated in United states when he was 22 years.Extracts descriptions :
We can see many different animals and peoples in various movements :
- a wooman who is walking : this effect is esthetic with a naked bust.
- a movement of a hand drowing a circle. It shows us the decomposition of hand movement.
- a somersault which seems so easy !
- a naked child who is climing on a chair with only three photographies.
- Rute : bucking and kicking
- Denver : a rafractory mule. It's an animation with much humour !
- Hornet : jumping over three horses. In this extract we see a spectacular jump, which we see in slow motion.
Sciences and cinema interests :
He is the inventor of zoopraxiscope, the ancestor of cinema. This is a machin that can recomposed mouvements by photograhies successions.
In those days there was a polemic about horse gallop. A French physiologist Etienne Jules Marey affirmed that a galopping horse take off ground but he was contestated. Somebody who resolved this problem will get a price !
Eadweard Muybridge used photography with 24 cameras to show this theorie : a galopping horse take off ground.
It was by this way he was interested by movements and it was his obsession to photograph every movement. He used photography like a reliable and objective way.
Title: "Annie G." Galloping
Plate 626 of "Complete Human and Animal Locomotion"
by Edward Muybridge, 1887.
Plate 626 of "Complete Human and Animal Locomotion"
by Edward Muybridge, 1887.
Results in animation
Webography :
- Muybridge in Wikipedia
- Muybridge chronology : This website presents a chronology which covers the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge
