Animal Locomotion print, Eadweard Muybridge, 1887,
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How can movement be conveyed by a still image? How is motion evoked differently in photography and painting? These questions are addressed by showing photographs from Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion series (1887) alongside artworks from Royal Pavilion & Museums Fine Art collection in The Moving Image.
Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century English photographer based in the United States. For one of his assignments he investigated and documented how horses ran. He set up a line of cameras that took a photo as the horse passed. From these photos Muybridge was able to reveal, for the first time, that all four of the horse's hooves left the ground at the same time. Muybridge's discoveries influenced the representation of movement in fine art and led to the development of moving film.