Edward Muybridge's Photography

Another way to break down movements into a series of still pictures is a so called “video flipbook”. A flipbook is the simplest way of making a sequence of still pictures appears to move. The intervals of darkness necessary for the illusion of motion are provided by the turn, or flip of each page. The nineteenth-century photographic experiments of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey broke down the movements of animals into a series of still pictures. When displayed in rapid succession, these pictures appear to be moving, recreating the original motion that the images document.

Who is Walker Evans? Walker Evans was one of many influential photographers along with being a writer. As a writer he found it better to explain his work with his photographs. Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. There really isn’t that much information on who his family was or what they did but for now we only know that he did have a father, a mother and had no siblings. However he did have 2 spouses before he died but both marriages didn’t last. Evans also was a painter for a while when he was a younger. Evans’s school life was very hectic. For a year he went to Williams College. After his first year he quit school and moved to New York City, which led him to finding work in bookstores and at the New York

Edward Weston was seen as one of the leading pioneers of photography in the 20th century. His contribution to the world of photography is one that was able to bring new possibilities to the field. His style of photography was unique to him at the time and offered the art community very original works of art. This style of Weston’s was one of high resolution and clarity, though it did not come until midway in his career. Weston would soon collaborate with other artists that shared his tastes to form the f/64 group. Before becoming the world renowned photographer, Weston started as a humble and novice photographer (Edward Weston).

An Australian Photographer,born in 1957 from the K’ua K’ua tribe. Before her passion developed for photography deacon has strong interests in politics. With the inspiration of Indigenous Activist Charles Perkins, it led Destiny to the beginning of her artistic endevours. "I was just in awe of him 'cause he was such a spokesperson. He was always there and I really miss him and I think Australia misses him.” 7] Growing up Deacon and her family lived in various Melbourne inner suburbs, in commission houses which while often tough opened her eyes to a whole other world "My family grew up on the waterfront. Our commission home was the hub of painters and dockers, criminals, unionists,there was culture galore.”]

David Bailey took a ‘simple’ approach to his photography. David Bailey was a photographer for Vogue. He said “I’ve always tried to do pictures that don’t date. I always go for simplicity”. A lot of his work was done in black and white as it will never date. Back in the 70’s black and white was an original effect to use and even today black and white still has a massive effect on the world of photography. These were known as timeless shots. I would take a similar approach with my work because of the effect of the simple work. To make something so simple have a huge impact can really strike an audience as a talent and would be good on the front of a magazine. He used many cameras but the one that he use

While experiments in creating moving images can be traced back to 180BCE it wasn’t until the late 1800’s that animation was truly realised through the advance of technology and creativity of the early pioneers such as J. Stuart Blackton and Emile Cohl. Driven by a desire to capture motion, many artists tried their hand at animation once the technology arrived, and up until the 1940s new and improved techniques for animation were being created every decade. Animation’s rise in popularity with the people and the advancement in techniques and technology culminated in a “golden era” in the US, where animation became a commercial and social triumph. Investigating this initial forty years of

Born in Los Angeles in 1911, the second son of photographer Edward Weston, had the closest artistic bond with his famous father, Edward Weston, of all four of the Weston sons.

Richard Avedon; who was also known as Dick, was one of the high-class photographers during the 20th century. His career had a huge influence in the fashion world as he had worked with huge fashion companies such as working with big fashion magazine; such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Creating such iconic campaign and photoshoot and still remains until today (in the fashion industry). The American photographer was best known for his work in minimalist black and white portrait as well as breaking the boundaries of photography norms and created iconic fashion photography. He has worked with big fashion houses like Dior, Versace and Calvin Klein and took portrait of big figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, and the Beatles.

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer best known for his advancements in motion pictures. Muybridge was born on April 9, 1830. When he was 30, he suffered a serious head injury in a stagecoach accident that left him with abnormal behavior. In his early thirties, he studied photography and became famous for photographing the American West. In the 1870s, Muybridge decided to study horse gaits. He set up cameras along a racetrack and took a sequence of images that confirmed a horse leaves the ground while trotting. Muybridge continued to perfect his strategy in later years. In 1872, Muybridge discovered and killed his wife’s lover at point blank. He pleaded insanity during the court case, and was acquitted on the grounds of “justifiable

Before computers became universally used and accepted motion pictures were made using traditional animation. It was a process that most animated films were created with during the 20th century. Individual frames were typically photographs of drawings. In order to create the illusion of movement, animators created each frame slightly different than the one previous. This process was used to create the treasured classics Pinocchio.

Henry Peach Robinson, born on July 9th, 1830, was a British photographer and prominent author on photography. Known as “the King of Photographic Picture Making,” he began his life’s work as a painter but would become one of the most influential photographers of the late 19th century. He was a prolific advocate for photography as an art form and is well known for his role in “pictorialism,” which, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, is “an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.”

Animation developed slowly overtime. Mylearning.org displays that during the nineteenth-century, many people invented contraptions that played with visuals. The most famous being the Phenakistoscope invented by Joseph Plateau. By spinning his contraptions, the multiple pictures he had taken looked as if they were moving (My Learning). David Nusair, a Hollywood movie expert, says that during the 1906-1935, smaller animations were being produced. Animators were able to synchronize

During the mid to late years of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment emerged. Film entered the stage of innovation. New marketing and technological innovations developed for film to become the art it is today. In the 1830s, Joseph Plateau designed the Phenakistoscope. This device had a picture in the middle of a wheel made with mirrors and small openings. When spun, the Phenakistoscope made the picture appear to move. The name changed to Zoetrope in the 1860s and producers advertised the product as an accessory every home needed (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Later inventions that preceded the first motion picture camera include: Henry Du Mont’s Omiscope, Henry R. Heyl’s Phasmatrope, Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoöpraxiscope, Etienne-Jules Marey’s fusil photographique and Eastman Kodak’s chronophotographs (Parkinson, 1997). With a design by Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson built the first modern movie camera, the Kinetograph, in 1890 (Dixon & Foster, 2008). In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiére patented the Cinématographe, a machine that combined the engineering of a camera and a projector (Bergan, 2006). Businessmen capitalized on the growing need for a place to witness these brand new films, thus they charged people to see them in their living rooms (Potter, 2014). These creations made movie-making a reality.

As skeptical moderns, we often have trouble accepting drawings or paintings as historical records, but we tend to believe in photographs the way that we believe in mirrors; we simply accept them as the truth. Alexander Gardner's photograph Trossel's House, Battle-Field of Gettysburg, July, 1863 might therefore be viewed as evidence rather than commentary. Unlike some of Gardner's other "sketches," this picture includes no perfectly positioned rifles, no artistically angled river, no well-posed men in uniform—indeed, no people at all. The photograph's composition could barely be more prosaic; the horizon slashes the picture in half, and the subject, a white colonial-style house, sits smack in the center. Yet this straightforward, almost innocent

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".