Analysis Of Horse In Motion By Eadweard Muybridge

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In the late 1800s, Eadweard Muybridge created the work "Horse in Motion", a sequence of shots of a horse galloping, not only for artistic purposes but his motivation and inspiration can also be seen as a result of incidents from his personal life. These images eventually led him to create similar works of photography with other animals and motions. His works marked a significant moment in the history of photography and inspired numerous practices that are still relevant today. While Muybridge's works have led us to create similar styles today, there is still a sharp contrast between his works back then and the photographs created today regarding their motivations, details of their work, and use of techniques and these differences led us to …show more content…

In the mid-1800s, when he was traveling by stagecoach, he got into an accident in the violent runaway stagecoach crash. For approximately three months, Muybridge had symptoms of double vision, confused thinking, impaired sense of taste and smell, and other physical and mental problems. His friends had also reported that the accident may have led to his emotional, eccentric behavior and freed his creativity from conventional social inhibitions (Wikipedia). Although during this time he had not started his professional photography career yet, this accident might have propelled him to do so. His accident allowed him to see life in a different perspective because of all the free time he had to recuperate in the hospital. While there is no evidence of how Muybridge started his photography career nor how he got interested in it, it can be speculated that during his stagecoach crash, he might have seen everything in slow motion. At the accident, Muybridge could have seen passengers on board being injured and watched bodies slowly being ejected from the vehicle. Even though the accident did not directly relate to his interest in slow motion since it was not the first type of photography he tried, it certainly might have unintentionally made him interested in it without him knowing

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