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Muybridge Eadweard (Kingston upon Thames, 1830-1904) Eadweard Muybridge initially worked as a bookseller and publisher, then approached photography, creating images of Yosemite National Park and San Francisco, later published under the pseudonym "Helios". Muybridge was an important photographer, famous for his studies of moving images, whose photographic experiments began in 1872. Read the full biography

Muybridge Eadweard (Kingston upon Thames, 1830-1904) Eadweard Muybridge initially worked as a bookseller and publisher, then approached photography, creating images of Yosemite National Park and San Francisco, later published under the pseudonym "Helios". Muybridge was an important photographer, famous for his studies of moving images, whose photographic experiments began in 1872. He traveled for several years in Mexico and Central America, creating publicity photographs for the Union Pacific Railroad, a company owned by Stanford. Muybridge lectured extensively on animal locomotion in the United States and Europe. These lectures were presented with a zoopraxiscope, a lantern he designed that projected images in rapid succession onto a screen, from photographs printed on a rotating glass disk, which reproduced the illusion of moving images. The zoopraxiscope, the predecessor of the modern cinema, was a success at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.