British-born pioneer of chronophotography. Muybridge emigrated to America where he became a landscape PHOTOGRAPHER of some renown. He achieved worldwide fame with his first experiments in chronophotography (1872), which proved beyond doubt that a horse in motion does at times simultaneously remove all four feet from the ground. Muybridge went on to produce thousands of studies of animals and humans in motion, and the results, which he energetically publicized, revolutionized perceptions of movement and its representation. The Muybridge Collection is housed at the Stanford University Museum of Art.
SOURCE: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e1835?q=eadweard+muybridge&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit. Oxford Art Online. Accessed: 18th January, 2017.
