According to Curator Philip Brookman from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs inspired and influenced Ansel Adams to venture out and take pictures of Yosemite Valley. Brooman says, “These images are just spectacular. These are the images that inspired Ansel Adams to photograph Yosemite Valley” (“Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move”). But Muybridge, a genius photographer, has made an impact on many other brilliant people who have created wonderful and memorable things. How can this be? Eadweard Muybridge has influenced photographers today emotionally, artistically, and scientifically.
The emotional influences of Eadweard Muybridge’s photography are many. Muybridge had suffered from several head injuries with symptoms such as double vision and confusion. This changed his emotional behavior. Early on in his life, Muybridge was a landscape photographer. He was very passionate for his photography and he would travel around to different places around the world to take pictures. Later, Muybridge was encouraged by Leland Stanford to become a motion photographer. The reason being that
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Stanford wanted to prove that all four horses hooves can leave the ground at the same time. However, no one could ever see this kind of action from the naked eye. This influenced Eadweard Muybridge to continue a new desire for motion photography (“Eadweard Muybridge Biography”). Muybridge was set on proving Stanford correct, and he certainly did accomplish what was asked of him. He published numerous pieces of artwork, which became very well-known across the world. However, there was some accusation to the photos he produced. Some would say that a horse’s legs couldn’t bend the way they did. But, his solution to the criticism was to give lectures about animal locomotion. Muybridge left the United States to take pictures in Central Asia (“Eadweard Muybridge | biography - British photographer”, “Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move”). Eadweard Muybridge has influenced photographers and successful artists. Such people include Francis Bacon and Ansel Adams. He caught the attention of some of these people because of his crisp, detailed photographs of Yosemite Valley. Muybridge was ahead of his time by being prepared for situations such as when the sky did not show well in some of his photos, he used cloud and sky negatives for the final prints. He was a very adventurous man. Eadweard Muybridge would take shots from cliffs or ledges to capture the picture he was looking for. (Cicala). Even though Eadweard Muybridge has had emotional impacts on photographers today, he has influenced people artistically. Eadweard first started as a landscape photographer and was experienced in that part of photography. Because of this, he inspired Ansel Adams to produce great photos of Yosemite Valley. Muybridge, then, changed his photographic perspective and became a motion photographer because he chose to participate in the horse debate for Leland Stanford. Muybridge took multiple pictures of galloping horses at a time, just seconds apart from each other. His photography was always just a moment in time and set up in grid formation. When Muybridge improved the photos of moving horses, artists were excited. Some would compliment him on his success, although some accused him of producing false photos. During this time the artistic view was to its full extent (“Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move,” “The Man Who Stopped Time”). Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic techniques have inspired artists because he photographed things that no one else could see before. Some of his artwork was even displayed in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In 1982, an opera, called The Photographer, was created in his honor. Muybridge’s influence changed the world and it was even the first step towards the cinema. (“Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move,” “Eadweard Muybridge Tate”). Even more than the emotional and artistic impact of his photography, Muybridge mostly impacted photographers scientifically.
The horse hoof debate is a great example. During his experiment, he set up 12 cameras at Leland Stanford’s horse race track to capture his evidence. The human eye cannot see things so fast, like if all horse’s hooves could leave the ground or not. This is the reason that it caught the attention of scientists. It was thought that scientists could study the photos of motion. Even after the horse debate, Muybridge continued to study the movement of people and animals. Eadweard Muybridge, even now, continues to impact technical artists and figurative drawing. (“Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move,” “The Science of Movement: Eadweard Muybridge | Europeana Blog,” “Eadweard Muybridge
Biography”). As part of his interest in motion photography, Muybridge developed a machine, to project pictures, called a zoopraxiscope. The zoopraxiscope is based off of a children’s toy, called a zoetrope. It was also a step towards the movie projector. “Zoopraxiscope” means “animal action viewer.” Muybridge worked at the University of Pennsylvania and developed a multi-camera lens and produced thousands of photos. He even wrote a book called Animal Locomotion that explained about the movement of animals. It was published in 1887. The book included 781 scientific photos that helped scientists study movement. His work influenced famous inventors such as Thomas Edison and Etienne-Jules Marey. Furthermore, the reporters of the horse debate were trying to decide who to credit the most. Leland Stanford for the original idea for the horse debate, or Eadweard Muybridge for fulfilling the experiments with his brilliant mind. (“Eadweard Muybridge Biography”, “Freeze Frame”, “The Man Who Stopped Time,” “Muybridge ,” “Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move”). Eadweard Muybridge was such a genius photographer and inventor, that he influenced many successful people, like Thomas Edison. Because of his motion photography experience, Muybridge continues to influence people today. I know that because of Eadweard Muybridge, I will continue to learn and practice landscape photography.
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...o settle a bet of whether all for hooves of a horse were in the air as they ran. This was impossible to be seen by just the human eye alone. So, Muybridge was asked to help by Stanford in which he agreed. Muybridge was never able to perfect the method of motion photography at the time because there was noting for him to work off of, by using 12 cameras to take photographs of the horse running in a sequence shot was able to make the assumption that Stanford’s prediction was correct that all hooves left the ground and were in the air at the same time while galloping. Muybridge went on to have a remarkable academic career which included teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883-1886, publishing several books that explained the processes to capturing motion photographs, then shared the process of a projection device that he invented called the Zoopraxiscope.
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