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  | EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904) Muybridge began his career in photography with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Pacific Coast. In 1872, Leland Stanford asked him to prove by photography whether a running horse at any moment ever had all its feet entirely off the ground. This Muybridge did and he published his findings in a great book, The Horse in Motion, 1879.* "Among the many experimenters whose work led up to the modern motion picture, none stands more in the vanguard than Eadweard James Muybridge" (Robert Bartlett Haas, Muybridge, Man in Motion, 1978). *A copy of this volume is available from us for $2750. |
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HIS letter refers to Muybridge's eleven volume Animal Locomotion; An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, published in 1887.