Edwaerd Muybridge was an english photographer, famously known for pioneering work on animal locomotion which was done by the use of many camera to capture motions.
He used photography as a proof that there was movement in a horses gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. This belief resulted in him spending time at university, much later in his career. To show methods of projecting animated versions of his photographs as moving motions, for the world to see.
He invented the zoopraxiscope, which created an anticipating wave in developments of cinema.
The zoopraxiscope projector became a phenomenal piece of machine, it was described by the London Illustrated News as a ''magic lantern run mad (with method in the madness)'' The process of functioning this projector were is essentially, photograph sequences of a silhouette image, which were painted around the edge of a large disc. The technique used by him would prove only vague short sequences of moving pictures. Although, this impressed American inventor 'Thomas Edison' and found his work to be an inspiration for his own convention.
Which led into him receiving a grant of $40,000 to carry out his work at the university of Pennsylvania. Which has been severely useful to many artists and scientists.
His influential aspect of art on the world was enormous, the overturn on conventional representation of movement resulted in the first stage in science of 'chronophotography'.
He sadly, past away on May 8, 1904 after his return to Kingston-on-Thames, in his last years.
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