Eadweard Muybridge

     Eadweard Muybridge was a famous photographer born in Kingston upon Thames, England on April 9th.1830 and died May 8th, 1904. He is famous for photographing animal and human movements that were imperceptible to the human eye. Through his photography he actually proved that there was movement in a horses gallop when all four hooves were not touching the ground as in the first photo below. Although he considered himself as an artist, while he was working at the university of Pennsylvania he encouraged scientific advance and some may even call him a scientist. In 1887 Muybridge published 781 finished prints he called Animal Locomotive which many viewers see as reliable studies about human and animal movement. Two examples from his Animal Locomotive gallery are shown below.