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(Eadweard J. Muybridge/Library of Congress)
Happy Birthday Muybridge!
Today’s playful Google Doodle celebrates Eadweard J. Muybridge’s 182nd birthday. Here are a couple of snip-its of NPR stories about the influential photographer.
Aside from the fact that he insisted on incorporating extra vowels into his name and killed his wife’s lover, Eadweard Muybridge was an unusual fellow. Long before the word “movie” even existed, he was playing around with stop-motion animation — devising ways to freeze sequences of motion and then reanimate them. (Via: NPR Contest: Following In Muybridge’s Footsteps)
Winners from the NPR Muybridge-Inspired Contest in 2010.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge began work on a series of photographs that would make up a sort of encyclopedia of motion. According to [Thom] Andersen’s documentary, Muybridge’s encyclopedia “encompassed 20,000 positions assumed by men, women and children, clothed and naked, and by birds and animals.” (Via: Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m27wg7Lp8a1r9fnado1_500.jpg)
(Eadweard J. Muybridge/Library of Congress)
Happy Birthday Muybridge!
Today’s playful Google Doodle celebrates Eadweard J. Muybridge’s 182nd birthday. Here are a couple of snip-its of NPR stories about the influential photographer.
Aside from the fact that he insisted on incorporating extra vowels into his name and killed his wife’s lover, Eadweard Muybridge was an unusual fellow. Long before the word “movie” even existed, he was playing around with stop-motion animation — devising ways to freeze sequences of motion and then reanimate them. (Via: NPR Contest: Following In Muybridge’s Footsteps)
Winners from the NPR Muybridge-Inspired Contest in 2010.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Muybridge began work on a series of photographs that would make up a sort of encyclopedia of motion. According to [Thom] Andersen’s documentary, Muybridge’s encyclopedia “encompassed 20,000 positions assumed by men, women and children, clothed and naked, and by birds and animals.” (Via: Muybridge: The Man Who Made Pictures Move)
