Eadweard Muybridge - 09Apr2012

Eadweard James Muybridge ( /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was a British photographer who spent much of his working life in California, and traveling in other parts of the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

In his earlier years in San Francisco, Muybridge had become known for his landscape photography, particularly of the Yosemite Valley. He also photographed the Tlingit people in Alaska, and was commissioned by the United States Army to photograph the Modoc War in 1873. In 1874 he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, and was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. He traveled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition in 1875.

In the 1880s, Muybridge entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements. He spent much of his later years giving public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences. He also edited and published compilations of his work, which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography.

埃德沃德·邁布里奇（Eadweard J. Muybridge，1830年4月9日－1904年5月8日），英國攝影師，他因使用多個相機拍攝運動的物體而著名，他發明的「動物實驗鏡」（Zoopraxiscope）是一種可以播放運動圖像的投影機，將連續圖像繪製在一塊玻璃圓盤的邊緣，隨著玻璃的旋轉，將影像投射出去，這樣就使這些影象顯得像在運動。 他在美國開創其事業之前學習了攝影，他因拍攝大量運動中的動物和人物的照片而著名，他同時也是一個成功的風景和勘察攝影師，紀錄片藝術家，戰地記者和發明家。邁布里奇革命性的技術創造了永恆的形象，進而深深影響了幾代攝影師，電影製作者和藝術家，其中包括Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, 和 Douglas Gordon。

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