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Running (Galloping)
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
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- negative 1878–1879; print 1881
- Medium
- Iron salt process
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- Photographs
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In the early 1880s Leland Stanford, an industrialist and former governor of California, commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to test a theory: that all four hoofs of a horse lift off the ground during a gallop. Muybridge devised a system for simultaneously tripping the shutters of up to twenty-four cameras arranged on a low shelf as the animal advanced across a racetrack. This test succeeded in visually halting the motion of a rapidly moving horse and proving the theory to be correct.
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