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Eadweard Muybridge, as he is now known, was born on April 9, 1830, in Kingston-on-Thames, in London, England. ... He changed it many times over his career, but eventually settled on Eadweard Muybridge. Eadweard’s father, John Muggeridge, was a grain, coal and timber merchant, and his mother, Susannah Smith Muggeridge, came from a prosperous family who worked in the barge industry. Muybridge became frustrated in England, so he moved to America in his early twenties, to follow his photographic career. ...
When Eadweard Muybridge first started his work in America, he produced a lot of work focused on the American Civil War. ... Subsequently, in the time between 1868-1873, the work that Muybridge carried out mainly consisted of landscape photographs of the American West. ...
In 1872, Leland Stanford commissioned Muybridge, to take clear photographs showing that when a horse gallops, all four legs are in the air. ... Stanford needed photographic evidence to win this bet, so he persuaded Muybridge to undertake this monumental project. During the time that Muybridge was working for Stanford, he was accused of murdering his wife’s secret lover, and father of what he thought was his new born son. After he was acquitted for this murder, Muybridge went into recluse for nearly three years. ... After all of the publicity had died down, and forgotten, Muybridge continued with his studies of humans and animals in motion. ...
When Muybridge began his photographic career, the American Civil War had begun. ... As Muybridge began his photographic occupation as an U. ... Muybridge photographed the parts of the war that occurred on the West Coast.
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