The foundations of Cinema

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (Muybridge, E. 1878)

Eadweard Muybridge created a series of the photographic moving image, that arguably are the foundations of the cinematic image. I have collated a list of views and responses to Muybridge’s seminal work, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. I like many other photographers, will always be fascinated by Muybridge’s moving image work, not just from its factual perspective, but by its scientific approach to documenting time in an image.

 

Zoöpraxiscope.

zoopraxiscope

…it is the first apparatus ever used, or constructed, for synthetically demonstrating movements analytically photographed from life, and in its resulting effects is the prototype of the various instruments which, under a variety of names, are used for a similar purpose at the present day.
Eadward Muybridge, Animals in Motion (1899)

Muybridge, E. (1878) Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg/1280px-The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?1517075181074 (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Muybridge, E. (1878) Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. Available at: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Johnson, Z. (2009) Meet the Art – Eadweard Muybridge Photographs of Motion. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKZif9ooxs (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Van Der Wenden, J. P. (2013) The Horse in Motion Installation of film tubes. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2WzRIae9s (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Sotheby’s (2017) Eadweard Muybridge: Studies in Motion. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KnnGeNrvdE (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Beetles+Huxley (2017). Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion, at Beetles+Huxley. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPHAvwBCmc (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017). Slices of time: Eadweard Muybridge’s cinematic legacy | Pioneers of Photography. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPHAvwBCmc (Accessed: 20 January 2017).

Wikiwand (1878) Zoöpraxiscope. Available at: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Zoopraxiscope (Accessed: 20 January 2017).