Eadweard Muybridge was born 9th April 1830 and died 8th May 1904. He was an English photographer best known for his work which captures motion. The photographs are a series of pictures which show something happening. His work is usually titled, usualy after what is happening. He started producing work about 1861 and continued until he died. His work shows movement and action and the subject is usually and animal or a person. The images haven't been digitally minpulated as when he produced his work the technology needed to manipulate pictures hadn't been invented. In his work the subject is always clear, in the centre of the picture and usually in the foreground. The number of pictures in a series changes but his work shows movement and action well when the photographs are shown in a sequence. His work reminds me of Zoetropes as his work could be viewed on one of them. I like his work and would defiantly want to try taking a series of pictures to show motion and then attempt to make a zoetrope as I think they are clever and imaginative. I think his work relates to the motion pictures we were asked to take because his work was some of the first motion pictures to ever be taken. My work is similar to his work by the fact that something is happening. However his work was produced on film.
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