Photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born in Surrey, England on April 9, 1830. His large images of Yosemite Valley were the image that bought him fame.
He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name. Although he immigrated to the United States as a young man, he remained obscure until 1868 when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley in California made him world famous.
Muybridge's experiments in photographing motion began in 1872, when the railroad magnate Leland Stanford hired him to prove that during a particular moment in a trotting horse, all four legs are simultaneously off the ground. His first efforts were unsuccessful because his camera didn't have a fast enough shutter.
After having a break when he was acquitted for his wife's lovers murder he resumed his experiments in 1877 in motion photography, using a battery of from 12 to 24 cameras and a special shutter he developed that gave an exposure of 21000 of a second. The photographic results were good enough to prove Stanford's theory.
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