Eadweard Muybridge

(American/British, 1830–1904)

Eadweard Muybridge was a British photographer known for his groundbreaking work in the field of motion-picture projection. Using multiple cameras, Muybridge famously captured the gait of a trotting horse, then with a device of his own invention, the zoopraxiscope, projected a moving image. “Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence,” the photographer once said. Born Edward James Muggeridge on April 9, 1830 in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, he emigrated to the United States at the age of 20. In 1855, he adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge as he believed it sounded more Anglo-Saxon. Having been in America for a decade, it was on his way to New York to sail back to England, that he suffered a serious head injury in a stagecoach accident. From 1862 and 1866, while recuperating in England, Muybridge taught himself several photography techniques. Set on making a living through photography, he returned to San Francisco in 1867. Here he successfully marketed large-scale photos of the Yosemite Valley, which gained him national attention. Through the 1870s and 1880s, while being tried for the murder of his wife’s lover, Muybridge perfected his photographic studies of animal locomotion. He was later acquitted of murder, on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Notably, the young painter Thomas Eakins worked as an assistant to Muybridge, during his time at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1894, he returned to England, and lived out his life lecturing throughout the country until his death on May 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom. Today, Muybridge’s works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.

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Nude woman ironing, leaning and standing, 1887

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Nude woman ironing, leaning and standing, 1887

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Nude man throws a ball or stone, 1887

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Nude man throws a ball or stone, 1887

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Child runs after a man, showing their..., 1887

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Child runs after a man, showing their..., 1887

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Trotting horse holding a bucket, 1887

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Trotting horse holding a bucket, 1887

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Woman fanning, dropping fan, stooping to..., 1887

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Woman fanning, dropping fan, stooping to..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 541, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 541, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 633, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 633, 1887

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Horse and Rider (from

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Horse and Rider (from "Attitudes of Animals..., 1881

Sale Date: November 23, 2018

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Pole vaulter, plate 165 * Shot putter, plate , 1887

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Pole vaulter, plate 165 * Shot putter, plate , 1887

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Animal Locomotion, plate 531, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, plate 531, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 519, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, Plate 519, 1887

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Horse in motion, 1887

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Horse in motion, 1887

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Animal Locomotion Plate 573, Animal..., 1887

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Animal Locomotion Plate 573, Animal..., 1887

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Tenaya Canon from Union Point Valley of the..., 1872

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Tenaya Canon from Union Point Valley of the..., 1872

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ANIMAL LOCOMOTION, PLATE 633, 1887

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ANIMAL LOCOMOTION, PLATE 633, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, plate 531, 1887

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Animal Locomotion, plate 531, 1887

Sale Date: May 1, 2018

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A selection of 20 plates depicting animals..., 1887

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A selection of 20 plates depicting animals..., 1887

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A selection of 17 plates depicting nude figures...

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A selection of 17 plates depicting nude figures...

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A selection of 17 plates depicting nude figures...

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A selection of 17 plates depicting nude figures...

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Lying prone and firing

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Lying prone and firing

Sale Date: April 15, 2018

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Plates 646 and 779 from Animal Locomotion,..., 1887

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Plates 646 and 779 from Animal Locomotion,..., 1887

Sale Date: April 7, 2018

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Photographs from "Animal Locomotion", 1887

Sale Date: January 21, 2018

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A group of 3 plates from Animal Locomotion all...

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A group of 3 plates from Animal Locomotion all...

Sale Date: February 15, 2018

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