Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. The experiment - using a sequence of cameras and trip wires - proved indisputably that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground while running.

Muybridge pushed the limits of the camera’s possibilities, creating world-famous images of animals and humans in motion and anticipating film and moving image.

This exhibition brings together a full range of his work, which continues to resonate with artists today in many diverse fields, from Marcel Duchamp and Francis Bacon, to the blockbuster film The Matrix and a Philip Glass’s opera.

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(booking fee applies, booking line open 9.45am – 18.00 daily)


Image Credit:
'SALLIE GARDNER' GALLOPING (PHASE 1), 1878.
EIGHT LANTERN SLIDES, COLLODIAN POSITIVES ON GLASS, LENT BY IRIS & B.
GERALD CANTOR CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
STANFORD FAMILY COLLECTIONS