Sequential Imagery Research

Eadweard Muybridge


Source : Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer that is known for his pioneering work in photography and motion picture. Muybridge invented a new way to create motion using photographs with "The Horse in Motion." This was achieved by setting out multiple cameras to capture the different positions in a stride. This became a very important innovation that allows people to visualize how motion can be achieved through photography. Muybridge was also known for his work on  the Zoopraxiscope, a disk that also portrays motion. 


Source : The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here is J.J. Ahern, a senior archivist at the Archives and Records Center at the University of Pennsylvania on Muybridge's work. “All the other photography before this had been straightforward poses, or a landscape, so being able to see someone doing physical activities allowed people to see how the body was working.” Gregory Vershbow, a post-doctoral fellow added, “That metaphor for thinking about time is at least in part informed by those images. Photography has made us much more aware of the past as broken up into moments, just like the present is.”

Through Muybridge, I also want to share the same concept of showing movement and motion in my sequential photography. From researching him, I also realized that I like to think of photography in general as pieces of time in the past that we cannot replace, just as the present too. 


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