Animal Locomotion: Plate 165
2000.02.08
Between 1883 and 1886, Muybridge made more than 100,000 images using banks of cameras to capture human and animal movement. In 1887, the photos were published in a ground-breaking collection titled “Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements.” Some of his books are still published today, and used as references by artists, animators, and students of animal and human movement.
In 1879 he devised a ‘zoopraxic’ device so that his action photographs could be transformed into moving pictures projected on a screen. This invention would prompt many to identify Muybridge as the founder of motion pictures.