#eadweard muybridge

vintagehandsomemen:

Tennis with Muybridge(1887)

From pioneering motion-picture-maker Eadweard Muybridge’s historically significant Animal Locomotion study. Specifically the naked guy playing tennis, in zoetrope format.

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Ten photographs compiled to recreate the movement, I thought this fascinating post might be appreciated, as you certainly seem to have liked the animatedblacksmiths I posted previously!

As past images of vintage wrestlers and the work of Eadweard Muybridge have proved popular when posted here, I now present a sequence combining the well-received subject and much-lauded photographer. Taken in 1885, published in 1887.

As the first animated blacksmith I shared here was rather well-enjoyed, I thought it was time to include another - this time two work together to hammer the hot steel much more efficiently. Again made from a set of sequential photographs taken in the 1870s by Eadweard Muybridge (Animal Locomotion vol II, plate 337).

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904) was a pioneer in his field, developing a technique of multiple cameras to capture movement of human and animal models at various stages in their stride, or whatever requested action was acted out before his array of equipment. Horses were a favoured topic, being of such importance to daily life at the time rather than a mere hobby as they are to many modern horsemen, myself included!

I was originally going to post just the uppermost picture in my collection simply because it turned up in my searching for artistic nudes of the Victorian era, but have since happened across several other plates featuring the same model and horse (a mare named Pandora, I find it delightful to know her name when so many of my pictures are of anonymous subjects!), and thought some of you may find them of interest.

okkultmotionpictures:

EXCERPTS >|<  Carpenter, planing a board by Eadweard Muybridge (1887)

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Animated GIF created from plate 379a from "Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. 1872-1885 / published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Plates. The plates printed by the Photo-Gravure Company. Philadelphia, 1887.“

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vintagehandsomemen:

Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1887

Another moving image animated from fantastic sequential photographs by Muybridge; though they weren’t intended for this purpose when created, it is certainly an interesting way to view them.

Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878

Image released into the public domain.

Eadweard J. Muybridge, Jumping; running straight high jump, ca. 1884-1887

Source:George Eastman House

Eadweard Muybridge, plate published in The Horse in Motion, 1883.

onceuponatown:

Skeleton of horse, running. By Eadweard Muybridge. San Francisco c.1881.