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Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) 
Aliases: Edward James Muggeridge
Professions: Photographer
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Selected plates from Animal Locomotion , 1871-1885
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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)
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(Photographs) Muybridge, Eadweard. Panorama of San
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MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard (1830-1904). Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of
Biography: Muybridge
(b Kingston-on-Thames, 9 April 1830; d Kingston-on-Thames, 8 May 1904). English photographer, active in the USA. He was the first to analyse motion successfully by using a sequence of photographs and resynthesizing them to produce moving pictures on a screen. His work has been described as the inspiration behind the invention of the motion picture.
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
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