Eadweard James Muybridge è stato un fotografo pioniere il cui lavoro ha alterato fondamentalmente la nostra percezione del movimento e dell'arte visiva. Il suo uso innovativo di più telecamere per catturare il movimento in sequenze stop-motion ha posto le basi per l'alba del cinema. Gli studi di Muybridge sulla locomozione animale e umana, che rivelavano dettagli impercettibili all'occhio umano, hanno ispirato generazioni di artisti e scienziati. Le sue invenzioni e ricerche visive continuano a plasmare la nostra comprensione del mondo, con la sua eredità che risuona in diversi mezzi artistici, dalla pittura al cinema.
A pioneer in the art and science of photography, Eadweard Muybridge developed the use of multiple cameras to capture motion too quick for the eye to detect. This remarkable collection of his famous stopped-action photographs features 166 photographic sequences, in which men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions—running, jumping, lifting, and other activities. Essential for artists, illustrators, and flash animators, these strips can be put to imaginative use in art and craft projects as well. Special Bonus: includes 10 Flash animations plus 15 photographic sequences that are ready to be animated.
A Source Book of Sequential Action Images by a Master Photographer
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure - models almost all undraped - engaged in over 160 different types of running, climbing stairs, tumbling, dressing, undressing, hopping on one foot, dancing, etc. Children walking, crawling and many dozens of other activities.
"196 plates (containing over 4700 individual photographs) from the famous Muybridge collection, chosen for their value to artists, doctors, and researchers"--Jacket
"The dry plate's most spectacular early use was by Eadweard Muybridge." — Life"A really marvelous series of plates." — Nature (London)"These photographs have resolved many complicated questions." — Art JournalHere is the largest, most comprehensive selection of Muybridge's famous animal photos — more than 4,000 high-speed shots of 34 different animals and birds, in 123 different types of actions. Animals are shown walking, running, leaping, flying — in typical actions. The horse alone is shown in more than 40 different galloping with nude rider, trotting, pacing with sulky, cantering, jumping hurdles, carrying, rolling on barrels, and 36 other actions. All photos taken against ruled backgrounds; most actions taken from 3 angles at 90 degrees, 60 degrees, rear. Foreshortened views are included.These are true action photos, stopped in series, taken at speeds up to 1/2000th of a second. Actions are illustrated in series, with as many as 50 shots per action. Muybridge worked with the University of Pennsylvania for three years, made more than 100,000 exposures, and spent more than $50,000. His work has never been superseded as a lifetime reference for animators, illustrators, artists, and art directors.
Focusing on the study of animal movement, this work is significant in the history of motion analysis. It features illustrations created with the zoopraxiscope, an early device for projecting moving images. The book has been meticulously reformatted and retyped, ensuring clarity and readability for contemporary audiences. Its preservation aims to keep the insights and artistic contributions of this classic accessible for both present and future generations.
In 1872, the author of the present work at Sacramento, California, commenced an investigation with the object of illustrating by photography some phases of animal movements. In that year his experiments were made with a famous horse—Occident, owned by Senator Stanford—and photographs were made, which illustrated several phases of action while the horse was trotting at full speed, laterally, in front of the camera. The experiments were desultorily continued; but it was not until 1877 that the results of any of them were published. In the meanwhile he devised an automatic electro-photographic apparatus, for the purpose of making consecutive photographic exposures at regulated intervals of time or of distance. Some of the results of his experiments with this apparatus, which illustrated successive phases of the action of horses while walking, trotting, galloping, &c., were published in 1878, with the title of "The Horse in Motion." Copies of these photographs were deposited the same year in the Library of Congress at Washington, and some of them found their way to Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, &c., where they were commented upon by the journals of the day. In 1882, during a lecture on "The Science of Animal Locomotion in its relation to Design in Art," given at the Royal Institution (see Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, March 13, 1882), he exhibited the results of some of his experiments made during a few antecedent years at Palo Alto, California; when he, with the zoopraxiscope and an oxy-hydrogen lantern, projected on the wall a synthesis of many of the actions he had analysed
Culturally significant, this work is recognized by scholars for its contribution to the foundation of civilization's knowledge. It offers insights that are essential for understanding historical and cultural contexts, making it an important addition to academic and literary collections.
Focusing on the science of animal locomotion, this book presents a detailed examination of how various animals move. It highlights the groundbreaking work from 1893, offering insights into the mechanics of movement that were revolutionary for its time. The unchanged, high-quality reprint preserves the original content, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the historical context and evolution of zoological studies.
