Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering English photographer who worked with the nascent medium in America in the late 19th century. He is well known as one of the first photographers to capture motion, an important development in photographic technology that laid the groundwork for film. His photographic series of a galloping horse famously solved a long-disputed question of whether or not all four of a horse’s legs leave the ground when in motion.