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Eadweard Muybridge

1830 - 1904

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Eadweard Muybridge ( ED-wərd MY-brij; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic. A photographer in the 19th century American West, he photographed Yosemite, San Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. He also made his early moving picture studies in California. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eadweard Muybridge is the 4th most popular photographer (up from 7th in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 531st in 2019) and the most popular British Photographer.

Eadweard Muybridge is most famous for his sequential photographs of a horse in motion.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 4 out of 148. Before him are Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Heinrich Hoffmann. After him are Alberto Korda, Helmut Newton, Dora Maar, Alexander Rodchenko, Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Oliviero Toscani, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Among people born in 1830, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 14. Before him are Isabella II of Spain, Frederic Leighton, Porfirio Díaz, Hector Malot, Isma'il Pasha, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are Hans von Bülow, Louise Michel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Élisée Reclus, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1904, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 12. Before him are Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Henry Morton Stanley. After him are Gabriel Tarde, Henri Fantin-Latour, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Vasily Vereshchagin, Stepan Makarov, and Paul Kruger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 568 out of 8,785. Before him are Adrian Smith (1957), George Everest (1790), Sid Vicious (1957), Bobby Moore (1941), John Cleese (1939), and John Hicks (1904). After him are John Bowlby (1907), Jim Clark (1936), Stanley Matthews (1915), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), James Hutton (1726), and Thomas Cromwell (1485).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 1. After him are Roger Fenton (1819), David Bailey (1938), Cecil Beaton (1904), Alexander Gardner (1821), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Allan Warren (1948), and Mick Rock (1948).

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