Kingston Museum is currently hosting a exhibition of Eadweard Muybridge’s work. Eadweard Muybridge born in Kingston Upon Thames in 1830 is regarded as one of the greatest photographic pioneers of all time. He ended up emigrating to San francisco where he opens a book shop. He later ends up traveling back to England after having a serious carriage accident. This is where he learns how to become a photographer. With his new skills he travels back to america where he records the development of the great west, and the beauty of Yosemite and Yellowstone. His early work is the area of work that I find the most beautiful and haunting as they show the development of a country, the people building it and those native adapting to the changes. The landscapes are untouched and expansive.
Eadweard Muybridge’s most famous work is of the galloping horse. Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to take this photo by Leland Stanford a railroad tycoon and founder of Stanford university in California. Leland Stanford apparently had a bet whether all four horse’s hooves left the ground at the saw time. So Muybridge was hired to take the photo which was no mean feet. Muybridge ended up setting up a series of cameras with strings attached. When the horse ran past it would catch on the string triggering the cameras. which proved that horses hooves do leave the ground in a series of images. Eadweard Muybridge has become also very famous for developing a projector called a Zoopraxiscope which he created some of the earliest stop motion cinematography with. Muybridge later carried on his work showing the movement and structure of animals and people at the University of Pennsylvania. His work helped inspire many artist such as degas and Francis Bacon.
He later died in Kingston Upon Thames in which he left his own personal collection to the people of Kingston. The collection is on display in collaboration with Tate Britain which is also hosting a exhibition on Muybridge’s work.
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http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/corcoran/42046/
http://www.histoire-image.org/site/zoom/zoom.php?i=454&oe_zoom=735
http://www.offscreenmagazine.co.uk/?p=35
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