Eadwaerd Muybridge

10 facts about Eadwaerd Muybridge

• -       He was a photographer.
• -       He was born 9 April 1830 at – Kingston.
• -       He changed his name several times.
• -       He killed his wife’s lover.
• -       He died on May 8, 1904.
• -       Also was pioneering work for animal locomotion.
• -       He left the untied states to take photographs in Central America.
• -       He started to build his reputation in 1867 when taking pictures of Yosemite & San Francisco.
• -       Most of his photographer sequences had been published in artists reference books. (Filmmaker, Thom Andersen made a 1974 documentary titled Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, describing his life and work).
• -       In 1991 the (Addison Gallery of American art at Philips academy in Andover, Massachusetts hosted a major exhibiton of Muybridge’s work).k