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Eadweard Muybridge

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Photography Pioneer

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British photographer whose sequential photographs of a galloping horse in 1878 settled a wager about whether all four hooves leave the ground and proved that photography could dissect motion. His motion studies and his zoopraxiscope projector stand directly between still photography and cinema.

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Birth Year
1830 1
Death Year
1904 1
Nationality
British 1
Defining Contribution
Sequential motion photography; The Horse in Motion, 1878; the zoopraxiscope 1
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Muybridge precedes cinema; his motion studies stand between photography and film.

Sources
1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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