![]() ![]() For each generation, Muybridge’s work has a new meaning that relates to our own experiences and the media of our time. Muybridge’s place in Victorian attempts at producing moving images is investigated, together with the historiography of Muybridge in the 20th-Century, when cinema was the dominant visual medium, and onward into the digital age. ![]() In this talk, Stephen Herbert examines whether this perspective is valid or relevant. In popular accounts of the subject, this is still a major theme. Writers dealing with the motion sequence photography of Eadweard Muybridge have traditionally described him as the ‘Father of the Motion Picture’, and the title of this talk is taken from one of the first biographies. And as a final post for 2012, the text of a talk given at Kingston Museum at the opening of the Muybridge: Revolutions exhibition, 2010.Įadweard Muybridge: Father of the Motion Picture? ![]()
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