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Subscribers  guaranteed an initial number of sales of an expensive work, thus  ensuring that a publication was viable before production began.  They included scientists and artists, as well as museums.\r\n\r\n<b>People</b>\r\nEadweard Muybridge was the name adopted by the photographer  Edward James Muggeridge (1830-1904). He was of British origin  but lived and worked mostly in California, USA. He was already  well known for his landscape views of the American West before  making his famous series Animal Locomotion .  He is also  remembered today for his eventful personal life: in 1874 he shot  dead the lover of his wife, was arrested, charged, imprisoned,  brought to trial and finally acquitted.\r\n\r\n<b>Materials &amp; Making</b>\r\nExposures were made in rapid succession by means of threads  attached to cameras placed about half a meter apart. The camera  shutter was activated when the horse broke the thread while  going past.","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Muybridge, Eadweard","id":"A8683"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"","id":""}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Collotype","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Photographic Studies","id":"THES283122"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AG1366"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"326","box":"H"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1887","earliest":"1887-01-01","latest":"1887-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"32.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"26","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Eadweard Muybridge is most famous for his split-second studies of motion which began in 1872 with an attempt to capture the movement of a galloping horse. By 1877 he had developed a technique to place 12 cameras in a row to capture each stage of the horse’s movement. His books Animal Locomotion and The Human Figure in Motion made systematic studies of movement, and inspired artists in the twentieth century such as Francis Bacon. Later Muybridge experimented with a device to create moving images from still photographs, making him a pioneer of cinematography.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Eadweard Muybridge, 'Infantile paralysis' (from Animal Locomotion), collotype, 1887","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"child","id":"AAT25945"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>Gallery 100, 2016-17:</b>\n\nEadweard Muybridge (1830–1904)\r\n‘Man Performing Acrobatics’, ‘Woman Jumping a Hurdle’, ‘Man Performing Contortions’, ‘Infantile Paralysis’\r\nFrom the series ‘Animal Locomotion’\r\n1887\n\r\nEadweard Muybridge became known for his split-second studies of the motion of animals and humans. He developed a technique involving 12 cameras to capture each stage of his subjects’ movement, anticipating the invention of cinema. Muybridge’s systematic images include bodies pushed to extremes, either through necessity or choice.\n\r\nCollotypes\r\nMuseum nos. Ph.1026, 669, 1024, 1053-1889","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["PH.1053-1889"],"accessionNumberNum":"1053","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":1889,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2003-07-25","availableToBook":false}}