Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904, originally Edward James Muggeridge) is one of the most important pioneers in photography and photo technology. Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames near London and grew up in rather simple circumstances. He emigrated to the United States in the early 1850s and initially lived in New […]
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion. Introduction, catalogue of illustrations (1887/1901)
The introduction and the catalogue of illustrations, as printed in Muybridge’s work “The Human Figure in Motion”: Introductory In the “Transactions of the Royal Institution of Great Britain,” of date March 13, 1882, is printed an epitome of a lecture, given by the author of the present work, on the […]
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion. Sequences (1887/1901)
For the following two picture galleries, the chronophotographic sequences from Eadweard Muybridge’s photo documentation “The Human Figure in Motion” have been digitized. The book was first published in 1901, the edition used here dates from 1907. However, the individual photos are significantly older and a selection from the major work […]
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion. Miscellaneous phases (1887/1901)
Eadweard Muybridge’s work “The Human Figure in Motion” (first published in 1901) contains not only his famous chronographical sequences that document the human body movement in a perfectly timed series of photographs (see also here for the sequences), but also an extensive appendix with more than 300 selected single images. […]
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