English photographer Eadweard Muybridge 1830 1904 is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion In 1872 he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames proving conclusively for the first time that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second For the next three decades Muybridge continued his uest to fully catalog many aspects of human and animal movement shooting hundreds of horses and other animals as well as nude or draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running walking boxing fencing and descending a staircase the latter study inspired Marcel Duchamp's famous 1912 paintingThis book traces the life and work of Muybridge from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments Many plates of Muybridge's groundbreaking Animal Locomotion 1887 are reproduced here In addition Muybridge's handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album The Attitudes of Animals in Motion 1881 is reproduced in large part A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography About the series Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe.
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