Eadward Muybridge (1868-1904) was an English born photographer who worked in America. He gained popularity for creating landscape photographs with new techniques such as editing clouds onto a photo which did not have feature any when it was taken and deliberately staging photographs in order to create mood. Soon he adopted the name 'Helios' (a Greek Sun god) and travelled around the country to take photographs.
Muybridge was comissioned by a wealthy racehorse owner to help him prove that all four feet of a horse would not touch the ground at one point during its run cycle. To prove this Muybridge needed to create new technology in order to capture the required photo. Eventually he created a system made up of 24 cameras with the shutters attached to thin wires, when a horse ran past the camera it would break the wire and the camera would capture its movement (this technique has since become known as 'time slice photography' and was used to create a scene in The Matrix which gave the impression of 360 degree movement). When the shots were played through together it gave the impression of movement. Muybridge then went on to capture similar shots of human movements two years after that. He also created a device called a zoopraxinoscope.
Muybridge was comissioned by a wealthy racehorse owner to help him prove that all four feet of a horse would not touch the ground at one point during its run cycle. To prove this Muybridge needed to create new technology in order to capture the required photo. Eventually he created a system made up of 24 cameras with the shutters attached to thin wires, when a horse ran past the camera it would break the wire and the camera would capture its movement (this technique has since become known as 'time slice photography' and was used to create a scene in The Matrix which gave the impression of 360 degree movement). When the shots were played through together it gave the impression of movement. Muybridge then went on to capture similar shots of human movements two years after that. He also created a device called a zoopraxinoscope.