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Eadweard Muybridge
The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs (book in German, English and French)
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English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was a pioneer in the visual observation of human and animal movement. In 1872, he famously helped former California Governor Leland Stanford settle a controversy by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge had invented a complex system of simultaneous shutters that could freeze frames, proving for the first time conclusively that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second. Over the next thirty years, Muybridge continued his quest to comprehensively catalogue many aspects of human and animal movement, taking hundreds of photographs of horses and other animals—and of nude or scantily clad subjects—performing a variety of activities, including running, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending stairs (it was the latter study that inspired Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 painting). This book traces Muybridge’s life and work, from his early reflections on anatomy and movement to his final photographic experiments. Many plates from his groundbreaking book Animal Locomotion (1887) are reproduced. In addition, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881), his first illustrated album, now extremely rare, is reproduced here, and a detailed chronology compiled by British scholar Stephen Herbert sheds new light on one of photography’s most important pioneers.
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Previous edition
Eadweard Muybridge (2010)
The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs
Publisher: Taschen
(previous edition)(in German, English and French)
Subject: History of Cinema
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