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Eadweard Muybridge

Photographer / Film Director | * 04/08/1830 († 74, 05/08/1904) | Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic. A noted photographer in the 19th century American West, he photographed Yosemite, San Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. He also made his early "moving" picture studies in California. Born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, at the age of 20 he immigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, then to San Francisco. In 1860, he planned a return trip to Europe, but suffered serious head injuries en route in a stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography, learned the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He returned to San Francisco in 1867, a man with a markedly changed personality. In 1868, he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular... ()
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Edward James Muggeridge, known by the pseudonym Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - ibid., May 8, 1904) was an English-American photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Today, Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs. In the 1880s, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries

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as Self (stock footage)1975 Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Born: Thursday, 04/08 1830 (April) in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Sunday, 05/08 1904 (May) in Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (aged: 74)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Other names for Eadweard Muybridge (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Edward James Muggeridge"
"Father of the Motion Picture" (Nickname)
Eadweard Muybridge frequently works together with these people:
Fay Andersen (2x, Crew)
Morgan Fisher (2x, Crew)
Thom Andersen (2x, Crew)
Dean Stockwell (1x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1000155, Added: 11/28/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024