Eadweard Muybridge ( 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904,
born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer
important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of
motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Today,
Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion
in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion
in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for
projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible
perforated film strip used in cinematography. He spent much of
his later years giving public lectures and demonstrations of his
photography and early motion picture sequences, traveling back
to England and Europe to publicise his work. He also edited and
published compilations of his work, which greatly influenced
visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and
industrial photography. He returned to his native England
permanently in 1894, and in 1904, the Kingston Museum,
containing a collection of his equipment, was opened in his
hometown.
