Running Horse Pictures Biography
Source(Gogle.com.pk)Hollywood couldn't have devised a more titillating scenario. Eadweard Muybridge, an eccentric inventor, was on the verge of a truly revolutionary discovery when his young wife had an affair. Muybridge killed the suitor in cold blood and was later acquitted on a verdict of "justifiable homicide." He resumed his work and developed a miraculous process for capturing movement on film, laying the ground work for the motion picture industry.
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Early Life
Photographic Discovery
Personal Life and Death
QUOTES
"I am going to make a name for myself. If I fail, you will never hear of me again."
– Eadweard Muybridge
Early Life
Edward James Muggeridge was born on April 9, 1830 to John and Susan Muggeridge of Kingston upon Thames, England. At age twenty, he immigrated to America, first to New York, working as a bookseller, and then to San Francisco, where he acquired an interest in photography in 1855. At this time, he changed his surname to Muybridge.
On a business trip to the East Coast, Muybridge received serious head injuries in a stage coach accident. He suffered from double vision and confusion, and friends noticed a marked difference in his behavior. Studies by modern neurologists examining the medical records speculate that the injury to his frontal cortex might have led to some emotional and eccentric behavior later in his life.
After his convalescence, Muybridge returned to San Francisco and took up photography full-time. Under the pseudonym "Helios," he set out to record the scenery of the west with his mobile darkroom. He produced a wide array of panoramic landscape photographs, most famously of Yosemite Valley, and traveled to Alaska to photograph the Tlingit people.
Photographic Discovery
As Muybridge's reputation as a photographer grew in the late 1800s, former California Governor Leland Stanford contacted him to help settle a bet. Speculation raged for years over whether all four hooves of a running horse left the ground. Stanford believed they did, but the motion was too fast for human eyes to detect. In 1872, Muybridge began experimenting with an array of 12 cameras photographing a galloping horse in a sequence of shots. His initial efforts seemed to prove that Stanford was right, but he didn’t have the process perfected.
Between 1878 and 1884, Muybridge perfected his method of horses in motion, proving that they do have all four hooves off the ground during their running stride.
Muybridge worked at the University of Pennsylvania between 1883 and 1886, producing thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion. During the remaining years of his life, he published several books featuring his motion photographs and toured Europe and North America, presenting his photographic methods using a projection device he'd developed, the Zoopraxiscope.
Personal Life and Death
During a break from his photographic research in the 1870s, Muybridge took several photographic expeditions in and around California. On one of these, his wife, Flora, had an affair with Major Harry Larkyns, a drama critic. Believing that Larkyns had fathered the couple's recently born son, Muybridge tracked him down, and shot and killed him. At his trial for murder in 1875, several witnesses testified that Muybridge's personality had changed after the accident.
1 2 | Next PageThe story about Muybridge and Leland Stanford, whether apocryphal or not, is a satisfactory one: Stanford, former Governor of California and a serious horse fancier, allegedly bet a friend, one Frederick MacCrellish, twenty-five thousand dollars that a running horse at one point in his stride had all four feet off the ground simultaneously. Since the issue was not resolved by direct observation, Stanford commissioned Muybridge, a California photographer famous chiefly for his landscapes, to settle the issue through photography, which could not lie.
Eadweard Muybridge
Six years later, after several near-successes (and an interruption during which Muybridge was being tried for the murder of his wife's lover), the photographer proved conclusively that Stanford was right about the four-feet-off-the-ground question, although the horse's position --- with his feet bunched beneath him --- was doubtless as much of a surprise to Stanford as to everyone else. Considering the length of time Muybridge had spent on the project, plus the expense of photographic equipment and legal fees, it is questionable whether Stanford profited from his bet, but he probably derived great satisfaction from being proved right.
Eadweard Muybridge
The issue was then less academic than it seems today; painters of the time frequently included horses in their pictures, and like Stanford they also wanted to be right. Within months of the publication of Muybridge's pictures, the hobby-horse convention that had been honored by artists for centuries was abandoned, except on that last bastion of conservatism, the carrousel.
Eadweard Muybridge
Muybridge's most important motion studies were published in 1887 as Animal Locomotion, a collection of 781 plates that described, in sequential frames, human beings and other creatures engaged in diverse characteristic activities. As the distinguished art historian E. H. Gombrich has made clear, artists had never really painted what they saw; they painted rather what they had learned to paint. The most talented among them had challenged some part of the convention that they had inherited, and had modified and enriched it. By the nineteenth century a properly trained painter knew how to draw a head or a hand in as many as ten or twelve perspectives, each of which looked as true as ancient wisdom. Muybridge's work, on the other hand, recorded many thousands of individual optical facts, almost all of which looked unfamiliar. Perhaps nothing since Daguerre had so unsettled the painter's established certainties.
from "Looking at Photographs" by John Szarkowski
Eadweard Muybridge / recommended books
The Human Figure In Motion
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure - models almost all undraped - engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, tumbling, dressing, undressing, hopping on one foot, dancing, etc. Children walking, crawling and many dozens of other activities.
Animals in Motion
Definitive selection of 3,919 photographs, plus author's observations on animals' movements. Incredible true-action shots cover 34 different animals and birds in 132 characteristic motions. Horses, goats, cats, gnus, eagles, gazelles, sloths, camels, many others shown walking, running, flying, leaping, more.
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