Edward Muybridge

Edward Muybridge

Edward Muybridge had a big influence in I Stop Motion and a big influence on photography. It all started in 1904 when he moved to Kingston and became a Photographer and was the major influence into Stop motion techniques when using a camera and had a Coronation stone named after him. Edward Muybridge had lots of different names his real name was Edward Muybridge but when he had the coronation stone with his name onto it he changed his name to Eadward Muybridge when he opened his own bookstore. When Edward Muybridge then went onto name himself just Muybridge and didn’t call himself Edward. Then when he went to South America he called himself Eduardo Santiago Muybridge.

 

Edward didn’t want to go into the family business when he was younger his mum had her own Boat depot and he didn’t want to go into that he was always interested in Photography and being a book writer. His first breakthrough was when he opened his own bookstore and started to write about photography. Edward Muybridge wasn’t poor and had a lot of money of his own and didn’t rely on his family although they did support him in his career path. After this one of the major breakthroughs in his life happened with him moving on and he decided to move to California and went onto focusing on studying images as well as photography. Muybridge then became Muybridge the Photographer and opened up his own film studio called Helios Flying Studio so he could show all his work and people can aspire to his work.

Edward Muybridge was also an artist and was a chemist as well and learned how to become an artist from other artists in Europe. Another major breakthrough in Edward Muybridge’s life was that he knew he was onto something special and he was making progress. The biggest breakthrough in Edward Muybridge’s life was when he was involved in an accident where his life flashed before him and he thought it was all over for him he was also seeing double of everything which inspired him into doing photography but he recovered after this accident. After his accident all his work was selling over the world and he was making good progress with his work and people were buying into his ideas.

Edward Muybridge influenced people into Stop Motion techniques when he was trying to prove the way horses ran and if their four feet came off the ground and he was hired by a business man and a race horse owner this man was also the former governor of California Leland Stanford this was called The Horse Motion and what he did was got 24 cameras and lined them up perfectly and when the horse ran across he had tape going across which would trigger the camera when the horse was going across to create the  Stop Motion techniques and Edward named this Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. After Edward had proven his theory that horses four feet do come of the ground when they are running some people still didn’t believe in his theory and some people bought into his theory that it was true.

Another turning point in his life was in 1872 when he got married to a woman called Flora Shallcross Stone, a divorcee 21 years old, and half his age but two years into the marriage Flora his wife had an affair with a man called Major Harry Larkyns the baby was called Florado who was seven months old. Once Edward had found out about this he went over to his house in the north of San Francisco to Calistoga to track down Major Harry Larkyns Muybridge had said Good Evening my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent to my wife and then shot him at point blank range and he was killed instantly.