Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, original nameEdward James Muggeridge, (born April 9, 1830,Kingston upon Thames,Surrey, Eng.—died May 8, 1904, Kingston upon Thames).Muybridge’s experiments in photographing motion began in 1872.

When the railroad Stanford hired him to prove that during a particular moment in at rotting horse’s gait, all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.Stanford believed they did, but the motion was too fast for the human eye to detect. In 1872, Muybridge began photographing a galloping horse in a sequence of shots. His initial findings appeared to indicate that Stanford was right, but due to imperfections in Muybridge's methods, it could not be confirmed with certainty and next few years produced thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion. Near the end of his life, he published several books featuring his motion photographs and toured Europe and North America, presenting his photographic methods using a projection device he'd developed called the Zoopraxiscope.

His research about the anatomy of human and animals that human eyes were not able to capture , the mechanism helped capturing still as the moving image.