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Eadweard Muybridge (American/British, 1830-1904)
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Eadweard Muybridge
Plate 349 from "Animal Locomotion", c. 1887
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Biography |
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1830 |
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Born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston upon Thames, England. |
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1855 |
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Arrived in San Francisco, starting his career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. |
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1867 |
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Began to build his reputation with photos of Yosemite and San Francisco. |
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1868 |
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Commissioned to photograph one of the U.S. Army's expeditions. |
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1874 |
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Still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; he then followed and killed the Major with a gunshot. He was aquitted after a plea of instanity resulting from an injury due to a stage coach accident. |
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1877 |
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Returned to the United States after photographing Central America.
Started to experiment with photographing motion in response to former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner's question of whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground at the same time during a gallop. |
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1878 |
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Successfully photographed a horse in fast motion. |
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1894 |
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Returned to his native England. |
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1904 |
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Died on May 8 in Kingston upon Thames while living at the home of his cousin Catherine Smith. |
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Exhibitions |
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2010 |
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25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O’Connor Fine Arts, Lambertville, NJ |
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2010 |
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Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, England
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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2009 |
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Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie, Muchen, Germany |
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2008 |
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Ton Peek Photography, Pa Utrecht, Netherlands (solo) |
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2007 |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (solo) |
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2005 |
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Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo) |
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2005 |
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Men, Women and Animals, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2004 |
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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2003 |
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Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1998 |
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Men in Motion, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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