Eadweard Muybridge's Photography

Muybridge began his experiments and to take photographs but when he began his work the cameras he was using lacked the shutter speed necessary to capture what he wanted to. Muybridge had some personal troubles however and was forced to abandon the project for some time until later in 1877 he returned to california and took up his project once again. Muybridge made a special bank of between twelve and twenty four cameras that would be set off in sequence, all equipped with a special shutter he himself had fabricated allowing the shutter to fire in just a few thousandths of a second. These images proved Leland Stanford right but also had much greater impact on the world as a whole, Muybridge went on to continue his work in animal locomotion and gave lectures around Europe and north America talking about his discoveries. Muybridge continued his work at the university of pennsylvania and began to take thousands of photographs of animal locomotion, Muybridge took photographs of things like people dancing, walking, running, jumping, tumbling, and other activities as well as taking image of many animals, dogs, cats, elephants, birds and others. This work was used to form a compendium, a visual compendium of movement for people in the arts and sciences to be able to use as a database for paintings and experiments. Many of these images …show more content…
This distribution of information was accomplished because now Muybridge could take these sharp and clear negative images and let them be printed multiple times into books and publications that let everyone see these amazing images that if only one or two prints could be made would have severely dampened the great impact that the collodion process allowed these images to

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