Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer born in the 1830's who focused on movement and motion. Before his interest in action, he had done some landscape photography as well, but his focus was movement. He photographed many horses running to capture the action, athletes, and other large animals. 

To me, these photos are more a scientific study of movement than they are visually pleasing. You can tell that he took a long process to get the final images that he did, each consisting of many frames. 

In the photo on the left, I enjoy the last row of images where the photo is taken from behind the animal because of the way that the antlers look.

This photo seems to be Muybridge's most famous piece. I think it almost looks like a frame-by-frame sketch that artists used to do for cartoons, and I feel as though it looks much more like a drawing than a photograph. In this case, that isn't necessarily a good thing, although I do understand that these pictures were taken in the late 1800's and are the beginning of the types of photography that we produce today. 


Images:
http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/M/Eadweard-Muybridge-9419513-2-402.jpg
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/Images/muybridge336.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/inventors/1/0/B/0/1/muybridge.jpg