Eadweard Muybridge; the Stanford years . Embed book, images.
Todos conocemos sus fotos sobre el movimiento humano y de animales, especialemente del caballo pero no sabemos, creo, que fue también un excelente paisajista como podemos ver en este libro
Eadweard J. Muybridge American, born England. 1830–1904.MOMA
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.........As the story goes, in 1872 railroad magnate and ex-governor of
California Leland Stanford made a bet with a fellow horseman regarding a
horse's gallop. Contending that all four of a horse's feet are off the
ground simultaneously at some point while galloping, Stanford hired
Muybridge to prove it photographically.
..........Undaunted, he developed a system of first twelve and eventually
twenty-four cameras, whose electro-magnetic shutter blades were opened
by the stride of the animal tripping wires strung across the track. This
series of twenty-four consecutive frames, which took less than one
second to expose, was made after Muybridge had perfected his technique.
Ultimately, Muybridge did prove that all four feet of a galloping horse
were off the ground simultaneously.
Met collections. Photographs
Coffee Harvesting, Las Nubes-Guatemala
Sausalito from the N.P.C.R.R. Wharf, Looking South
Mirror Lake, Valley of the Yosemite
Eadweard Muybridge; the Stanford years
by Mayer, Arthur, 1886-1981