Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

Born - 9th April 1830 

Died - 8th May 1904 

Important for his pioneering work of studying motion in photography and early motion picture project. 
Known as the Father of Motion Picture 

He emigrated to America aged 20 first to New York and then to San Fransisco before returning to England in 1861 and took up professional photography. 
Eadweard Muybridge shot his wife's lover in 1874 but was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide.
Began as a landscape photographer before developing into a movement photographer.

I like this image because it clearly shows that passing off time. It does this detail really well and clearly shows off the passing of time through the movement of the woman dancing in the shots. I really like this image because it clearly shows the passing of time and therefore means that it shows off exactly what it is supposed to show off. This is similar with many off the photographs that Eadweard created. Many of the photographs that he created are a  set of photographs that work really well together and show clear movement over a short period of time showing of all the steps of getting through a simple movement. The fact that all his photographs are black and white links to the time period in which the photographs where colour photographs had not been invented. The fact that he has shown several frames in one photograph links to the fact that he also links to the beginning of cinematography and the images he creates almost look like a frame by frame piece of video footage