His gravestone carries his name as "Eadweard Maybridge". Others frequently misspelled his surname as "Maybridge", "Moybridge", or "Mybridge". He used "Eadweard Muybridge" for the rest of his career. The spelling was probably derived from the spelling of King Edward's Christian name as shown on the plinth of the Kingston coronation stone, which had been re-erected in 1850 in Muybridge's hometown, 100 yards from his childhood family home. Īfter an 1882 trip to England, he changed the spelling of his first name to "Eadweard", the Old English form of his name. While travelling in 1875 on a photography expedition in the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, the photographer advertised his works under the name "Eduardo Santiago Muybridge" in Guatemala. He also used this as the name of his studio and gave it to his only son, as a middle name: Florado Helios Muybridge, born in 1874. In addition, he used the pseudonym Helios (Titan of the sun) for his early photography. įrom 1865 onward, he used the surname "Muybridge". From 1855 to 1865, he mainly used the surname "Muygridge". Muggeridge changed his name several times, starting with "Muggridge". In 1904, the year of his death, the Kingston Museum was opened in his hometown, and it continues to house a substantial collection of his works in a dedicated gallery.Įdward James Muggeridge was born and raised in England. He retired to his native England permanently in 1894. He also edited and published compilations of his work, some of which are still in print today, which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography.
From 1883 to 1886, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, occasionally capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate moments in time.ĭuring his later years, Muybridge gave many public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences, travelling frequently in England and Europe to publicise his work in cities such as London and Paris. Today, Muybridge is best known for his pioneering chronophotography of animal locomotion between 18, which used multiple cameras to capture the different positions in a stride, and for his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting painted motion pictures from glass discs that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography. In 1875, he travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition. In 1874, Muybridge shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, but was acquitted in a controversial jury trial, on the grounds of justifiable homicide. In 1868, he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular stereographs of his work. He returned to San Francisco in 1867, a man with a markedly changed personality.
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He spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography, learned the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. In 1860, he planned a return trip to Europe, and suffered serious head injuries in a stagecoach crash in Texas en route. īorn in Kingston upon Thames, England, at the age of 20 he emigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, and eventually to San Francisco. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic. Galloping horse, animated using photos by Muybridge (1887)Įadweard Muybridge ( / ˌ ɛ d w ər d ˈ m aɪ b r ɪ dʒ/ 9 April 1830 –, 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.
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