Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) "Animal Locomotion" | Annex Auctions
Ends September 30, 2024
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) "Animal Locomotion"
Framed Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photograph, "Animal Locomotion". Lower left, "COPYRIGHTED 1887 BY EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE".
Dimensions: sight: 6"h x 19-1/2"w; frame: 15"h x 28-3/4"w.
Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer known for his groundbreaking work in the field of motion-picture projection. Using multiple cameras, Muybridge famously captured the gait of a trotting horse, then with a device of his own invention, the zoopraxiscope, projected a moving image. “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence,” the photographer once said. He was born in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom but emigrated to the United States at the age of 20. In 1855, he adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge as he believed it sounded more Anglo-Saxon. Ten years later he was on his way to New York to sail back to England when he suffered a serious head injury in a stagecoach accident. While recuperating in England, Muybridge taught himself several photography techniques and returned to San Francisco in 1867. He marketed large-scale photos of the Yosemite Valley, which gained him national attention. Through the 1870s and 1880s, while being tried for the murder of his wife’s lover, Muybridge perfected his photographic studies of animal locomotion. He was later acquitted of murder, on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Notably, the young painter Thomas Eakins worked as an assistant to Muybridge, during his time at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Condition:Overall good condition with some minimal wear showing on wooden frame, please see photos.
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