Happy Birthday, Eadweard
Today in 1830 Eadweard Muybridge was born. A social climber and kind of a jerk, he was also an extremely talented photographer. He was able to freeze the motion of a galloping horse - and change the way we looked at it forever.
Check out the Wikipedia entry where they have animations of this sequence and a galloping bison, too!
4 Comments:
"...he was not also an extremely talented photographer"???
Eeek! Editing error - thanks! Fixed now...
There, there, Ridger. It happens from time to time to even the best of us ;-)
Worse is when it's in ink, and thus not longer correctable. I speak from personal experience -- self-inflicted wounds I missed in the galleys despite my best efforts.
His freezeframe montages have inevitably lost some of their magic, but none of their appeal. Ubu Web recently alerted me to a PDF of The Human Figure in Motion.
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