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More Muybridge-related Videos
And still they come! Video artists, using or inspired by Muybridge images, continue to upload their work to share with us - with new mini-movies being added to one or other of the video access websites at a frequency that's becoming dificult to keep up with. Here are a just few of the latest.....
Things - Jennifer Whalen Animates a Horse
Buffalo! To the Moon! - by cporridge
Not just horses: 'Deer Bounding', Plate XXIII from The Horse in Motion by J.D.B. Stillman
Muybridge books from the Internet Archive
The following books are available for free download from the Internet Archive.
Descriptive Zoopraxography, or, The science of animal locomotion made popular by Eadweard Muybridge ([Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania 1893)
Animal Locomotion. The Muybridge work at the University of Pennsylvania. The method and the result, by W.D. Marks, H. Allen, F.X. Dercum (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1888)
The Horse in Motion: as shown by instantaneous photography, with a study on animal mechanics founded on anatomy and the revelations of the camera, in which is demonstrated the theory of quadrupedal locomotion, by Dr. J.D.B. Stillman (Boston: J. R. Osgood and company 1882)
Louis Faurer: Hommage to Muybridge
The auction sale of 15th-21st Century Art & Fine Photography, Galerie Bassenge
Erdener Str. 5a, Berlin Germany 14193, includes: (Lot 4309) "Hommage to Muybridge, Chestnut St., Philadelphia". Photographer: Louis Faurer (1916-2001). 1940/printed 1991. Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 22,8 x 30,8 cm (27,9 x 35,2 cm). Signed and dated by the photographer in pencil below the image in the margin; signed, titled, dated and numbered 8/16 by the photographer in pencil on the verso. Auction date 3 December 2008. Starting price EURO 1,200. In excellent condition.
Faurer worked for magazines, including Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, but it was his personal work such as this - photographs taken in city streets - for which he is best remembered.
Ancient relics excavated....
Some of the last communications from Muybridge were his comments about the animal images on the Tablet Of Mena, a stone artefact excavated in Egypt. (see Blog Archive: 15 April 2007) It's somewhat ironic then to note that on two occasions during the 20th century, batches of Muybridge's own relics bearing images were dug up from the garden of his last home - in the 1970s a small number of lantern slides; and in the 1990s a quantity of pictures on glass of various sizes. Pictures of some of these excavated pieces appeared in the Bequest book. The unpublished glass plate shown here, complete with garden dirt, bears an image from Animal Locomotion Plate 621. "Annie G." cantering, saddled.
Tesseract
Tesseract is a 20-minute film available for download on the web, here:
Tesseract
Tesseract draws a line between photographer Eadweard Muybridge's obsession with photographing movement and his act of jealous murder in 1873.
tes-ser-act : a four dimensional cinema-cube stretching through time.
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contact: garhodes@GARhodes.com
If you would like a different Muybridge sequence plate to look at for every month of the year, see the Allposters website to order their 2009 Muybridge Calendar. (There are links to various ordering locations for those not in UK.) There's currently a special price of £6.98 - usually £10.00
Muybridge videos online
Here's a selection of the best Muybridge-related videos on YouTube. I've chosen those which add to Muybridge's images, or manipulate them in some way, rather than just animating the photographs mechanically. Apart from videos based on motion sequences there's also an interview with a Muybridge poet, and a re-visiting of the San Francisco Panorama.
A collage of early motion photography
Heavily manipulated Muybridge images
Students' animation
George Snow's colourful and dynamic re-working of Muybridge images
Short film by Xavier Sanson
Galloping horse in a praxinoscope
Paper motion sculptures inspired by Muybridge sequences
Re-using motion information in Muybridge sequence
Funny-cartoon style horse and rider
Brief animation by Grant Harding
Interview with author of Muybridge poem
Toys animated, a la Muybridge sequences
San Francisco Panorama revisited
Projections onto buildings, Muybridge's home town
Paintings inspired by Muybridge's sequence photography
Recent paintings by Michael Milburn Foster have been inspired by Muybridge's photographs. The Muybridge Series (2008) comprises seven vibrant, chromatic paintings, including Man completing a handspring, a flying pigeon interfering (Oil on canvas 80cm x 80cm). The artist's website has more illustrations of these artworks HERE
He writes: 'I have always been fascinated by the human figure in motion. Running, jumping or even just turning it contains an amazing set of internal lines, structures and shapes. These are what interest me ... I try to re-create them in order to convey the energy and rhythm of their movement. Sometimes I feel I am almost painting music.'
More links to Muybridge-related sites have recently been added to this website - see the
Links page.
Animal Locomotion 21 plate edition on eBay
Muybridge's Animal Locomotion with 21 plates offered on eBay, October 2008.
Muybridge at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Muybridge's home town of Kingston, Surrey, hosts two lectures in November, as part of a new colaborative partnership between Kingston University and the Royal Borough of Kingston
Thursday, 20th November 7.30pm: Philip Brookman, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.
Date of Atlanic Crossing established
The details of Muybridge's Atlantic crossing early in 1889 have been established for the first time. He travelled from New York to Liverpool on the R.M.S. Servia on 26 January, listed as Edward Muybridge, travelling saloon class. The Cunard ship - the first passenger liner to be fitted with electric lighting - was captained by Horatio McKay.
Muybridge on the radio
Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope is the subject of a section of a programme in the new series of Eureka! (BBC Radio), in which Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history of science. The year is 1879, when the Zoopraxiscope first made an appearance with a presentation at Leland Stanford's mansion. Your blogger was interviewed by Adam at Kingston Museum. The programme will be broadcast on Radio Four, Friday 1st August at 11am.
Muybridge Panorama on eBay
A panorama of San Francisco was sold recently on eBay, by the auction company PBA Galleries of San Francisco. Listed as follows:
Closing price was $42,500.
Muybridge in the NewScientist
Lights! camera! action!
Muybridge and his zoopraxiscope images feature in a two-page article in New Scientist, issue 9 February. The piece, a two-page feature by Stephanie Pain in the 'Histories' series, covers his life and career but - unusually for a piece in a newsstand publication - centres on the real nature of Muybridge's projected motion pictures. It was prompted by an exhibition about modern sequence photography: 'What happens next?' at the PM Gallery, London (see below). More on that wonderful website The Bioscope: (11 Feb)
What Happens Next? is an exhibition at the PM Gallery, Ealing, London, 8 February-15 March. In association with Thames Valley University.
Features work by contemporary photographers, exploring the photographic sequence. (There will be a small Muybridge component). 'Although Muybridge may not have been a direct inspiration for any of the contemporary works on show, he is the godfather of them all.'
Artists: John Blakemore, Julie Cassels, Matt Finn, Steffi Klenz, Mari Mahr, Edweard Muybridge, James Newton, Nanna Saarhelo, Andrew Warstat, Sally Waterman and Cary Welling.
The English edition of Brian Clegg'sThe Man Who Stopped Time: Eadweard Muybridge - Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer (a slightly shorter title than the American edition) is now available.
A review of this book appeared in our blog last year (see Blog Archive). This is the Amazon synopsis:
This book tells the vivid story of the pioneer of photography, Eadweard Muybridge. His extraordinary personal story has all the ingredients of drama. He was born in the English suburbs, and set out to seek adventure and fortune in the American Wild West. While visiting Europe his coach overturned, and he was treated for a fractured skull. It was at this time that photography grew. Muybridge became a pioneering innovator, who not only invented new methods of photography, but devised 'a flying studio' which enabled him to dvelop his pictures in the field. He was betrayed by his wife, and risked everything by killing her lover. Muybridge's work is iconic, the picture of the moving horse, which proved how it lifted its four feet off the ground simultaneously, known throughout the world. His distinctive stop-motion pictures of men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living, have become some of the most famous images in the history of photography and science.
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Muybridge 2009 calendar now available
