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Electro-Exposer
Creator
Eadweard J. MuybridgeAmerican Photographer · 1830–1904
All works by this person →In his early twenties, Eadweard Muybridge moved to the United States, where he was drawn to the primarily uncharted Western landscape. After a stagecoach accident, he convalesced back home in England and learned photography. Upon returning to the States in 1867, he soon earned his reputation photographing the landscape. Apparently a hot-tempered man, Muybridge shot and killed his much younger wife
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- negative 1878–1879; print 1881
- Medium
- Iron salt process
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 035710f3-33a9-4d49-aab0-30d793897468
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A vintage scientific apparatus with wooden frames and mechanical components.
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Side view of a view camera and back view of an electromagnetic lens shutter.
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