On Sunday, April 9 it was "the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge, born in
Kingston-on-the-Thames, England (1830). He emigrated to California in the
1850s, where he took up photography and quickly became one of the first
internationally known photographers. Between 1867 and 1872 he took more than
2000 photographs, many of them views of the Yosemite Valley.
It was Eadweard Muybridge who designed a new camera that could take a
picture in one-thousandth of a second. To test his improvement, he set up
twenty-four cameras along a race track with trip wires to pull the shutters.
With those cameras, he managed to take a series of pictures of a horse
galloping, proving for the first time that all four of a horse's hooves will
sometimes be off the ground at the same time".
From "The Writer's Almanac".
Tom C.
Tom C.
