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7 unusual facts about Eadweard Muybridge


David A. Winter

He was later awarded the Muybridge Medal of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) and the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society.

Gordon Hendricks

In 1975 he authored a work, republished in 2001, about Eadweard Muybridge, in which he called Muybridge the father of the cinema.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Purkyně also recognised the importance of the work of Eadweard Muybridge.

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park

Accurate restoration of the home and its rooms was aided by both an extensive study of the home in 1986 through the Historic American Buildings Survey, and through a large collection of photographs of the home taken in 1868 by Alfred A. Hart, and again in 1872 by Eadweard Muybridge.

Muggeridge

Eadweard Muybridge, 19th-century English photographer, born Edward James Muggeridge.

Sheldon Jackson

Among Jackson’s personal papers include photographs by Eadweard Muybridge and H.H. Brodeck.

The Steam Man of the West

The novels set in 1868 center around young inventor Frank Rude, Jr., (a parody of dime novel hero Frank Reade, Jr.), his cousin Charlie Bull, his sister Inanna Rude, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the orphans PS and Kurt Wagner, Bessie Little the Masked Rider, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and the detective and vigilante the Woman in Black.


Brian Catling

Also appearing in The Vorrh are real-life figures Eadweard Muybridge and Raymond Roussel.

Gait analysis

Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey were pioneers of these developments in the early 1900s.

John Bernhard

His work was included in the 120 year survey of the nude exhibition “Body Work” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, alongside the work of Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Eadweard Muybridge, E. J. Bellocq, and Edward Steichen.


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