Eadweard Muybridge

He placed the photographs in sequence to show how all four hooves of a galloping horse lift off the ground at the same time – the way painters had depicted galloping horses until then was very different. The photographs proved that the camera could register more than the human eye. Muybridge took more than 28,000 photographs to capture the motion of people and animals, including elephants, dogs and cockatoos. To see a moving photograph was a magical experience at the time! Muybridge’s motion studies were central to the development of photography as an artistic and scientific medium, and his work is seen as a precursor to film.