EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famou sly helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a comp lex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames-proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second. This resplendent book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early...[Llegir més]