Eadweard Muybridge

Such encouragement to study closely the individual frame echoes the ambition of some of the pre-cinema sequence photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge,

The Bioscope 2010

Carleton Watkins 1829-1916 was for a time partially overshadowed by his more familiar contemporaries Eadweard Muybridge and William Henry Jackson.

His Best Shot John Wilmerding 2011

In 1872, San Franciscan Leland Stanford, an avid horse lover, commissioned the ingenious inventor Eadweard Muybridge to use Muybridge's newly invented photographic technology to establish whether a galloping horse flew when it ran - i.e., whether it ever had all four feet off the ground simultaneously.

JD Beltran: San Francisco, the Secret Rock Star JD Beltran 2011

In 1872, San Franciscan Leland Stanford, an avid horse lover, commissioned the ingenious inventor Eadweard Muybridge to use Muybridge's newly invented photographic technology to establish whether a galloping horse flew when it ran - i.e., whether it ever had all four feet off the ground simultaneously.

JD Beltran: San Francisco, the Secret Rock Star JD Beltran 2011

The cross threads of influence run deep, with Turnage's score inspired by a text by Wallinger about Eadweard Muybridge.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

Prior to Alice, perhaps the most notable female in early cinema was Sallie Gardner, a horse photographed in perpetual motion by Eadweard Muybridge.

Gerit Quealy: The Director's Guild of America Honors Alice Guy-Blaché Gerit Quealy 2011

We know that Degas was aware of the photographic experiments in capturing motion of Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey and the brothers Lumière.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

Their persuasive thesis is that Degas, like many of his generation, was fascinated by the new medium of photography—he took photos himself—and that photographic precedents and conceptions, such as Etiènne-Jules Marey's and Eadweard Muybridge's dissections of movement, inform his work.

Stolen Moments and Persistent Poses Karen Wilkin 2011

His attempts at capturing movement are exhibited alongside the developing mediums of the era, including early film by the Lumière brothers and Eadweard Muybridge's chronophotography.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

The Society of California Pioneers12 An object in 'Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change' "Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change" presents a 19th-century British-American remarkable for much beside his first name: stop-motion camera techniques used on galloping horses and fighting boxers, and an early movie-projection device.

Don't Miss: March 5-11 2011