Eadweard Muybridge

Muybridge, born April 9th, 1830, was an English photographer who was made known by his pioneering work in studies of motion and in motion projection in photographs. He immigrated to the U.S as a young man, his photographs of Yosemite Valley, California made him world famous by 1868. Eadweard Muybridge would use multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and a zoopraxiscope which is used for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the perforated film strip. He spent much of his later life giving public demonstrations and lectures of his photography and early motion sequences. His published compilations of his work influenced visual arts and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography. 

The photograph to the left is a vernal fall, 400 feet. located in Valley of Yosemite

This photograph "The Horse in Motion" was made to find out if there was moment mid-stride where horses had all hooves off the ground, it took several years. Source

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