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About the photographer, Eadweard MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)
Eadweard MUYBRIDGE was a British photographer and pioneer of photographic technology. He emigrated to America at a young age and came to San Francisco in the mid-1850s, where he initially worked as a bookseller. During this stay in England, he probably also learned the craft of photography and, after his return to California, he began a career as a photographer, capturing the present-day Yosemite National Park, the lighthouses of the Pacific coast, and the war against the Modoc tribe. His panoramas of San Francisco from 1877 and 1878, composed of several photographs, are among the most detailed images of the city before the great earthquake of 1906. In 1878, he was commissioned by Governor Leland Stanford to capture the individual phases of a galloping horse's course of movement for the first time, thus establishing chronophotography. His work Animal Locomotion, published in 1887, influenced artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Francis Bacon with his movement studies.