Cantor Arts Center

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) is best known for his pioneering photographic studies of motion, which began at the Stanfords’ Palo Alto Stock Farm, using Leland Stanford Sr.'s horse 'Occidental' as his initial subject. Born in England as Edward James Muggeridge, Muybridge emigrated to New York in the early 1850s and went into business importing English books. In the 1860s, after moving to California, he learned wet plate photography and joined his friend Silas Selleck in his photo business. Muybridge quickly became recognized as one of the preeminent photographers of the American west.

In 1872, Leland Stanford Sr. commissioned Muybridge to use photography to answer a question: is there a moment when all four of a trotting horse’s hooves are off the ground? With Stanford’s financial backing and encouragement, the famously clever photographer perfected instantaneous photography and proved that the answer is yes. For a decade, particularly in 1872–73 and 1878–79, this most consequential partnership in American photography enabled Muybridge to advance his techniques and make groundbreaking photographs that merged mechanical technology, the science of physiology, and visual art.

The Cantor Arts Center’s collection includes a copy of Muybridge’s rare The Attitudes of Animals in Motion album, assembled from his 1878–79 photographs, as well as photographs from his Animal Locomotion project, a continuation of his motion studies completed under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. The Cantor’s collection also includes Muybridge’s Phases of the Eclipse series and a robust selection of examples of the artist’s earlier acclaimed landscape photographs, San Francisco city views, documentation of Modoc Native Americans, photographs taken in Central America, and other commissioned work. Alongside photographic prints, glass negatives, and lantern slides, an array of photographic equipment, including a recreation of his 1879 zoöpraxiscope, gives insight into Muybridge’s oeuvre and the groundwork it laid for the advent of moving images.

Maggie Dethloff, PhD, Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media

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View from Grotto at Head of Too-Loo-We-Ack Cañon

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19751

View from Grotto at Head of Too-Loo-We-Ack Cañon

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19750

Yo-sem-i-te Falls, (Large Grizzly Bear)

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19749

Pohono, (Spirit of the Evil Wind), Bridal Veil, 940 Feet Tall

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19748

Summit of the Lower Yo-semite Fall at Low Water

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19747

Base of the Lower Yo-semite Fall at Low Water

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19746

Yo-wi-ye Nevada, 700 Feet Tall

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19745

Loya, (Sentinel Rock), 3,270 Feet above Valley

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19744

Tu-toch-ah-nu-lah (Great Chief of the Valley) The Captain, 3,500 Feet above Valley

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19743

Kah-choo-mah (Wild Cat Falls)

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19742

Tu-lool-we-ack Fall in South Cañon, 900 Feet

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19741

Pom-pom-pa-sus (Mountains Playing Leap Frog) Three Brothers, 4,800 Feet above Valley

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19740

Summit of Piwyack

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19739

The Valley from Komah

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19738

Piwyack-Vernal Fall

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19737

The First Fall

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19736

Kee-koo-too-Yem (Water Asleep) Mirror Lake

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19735

Base of the Lower Yo-semite Fall at Low Water

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A.
JLS.19734

The Attitudes of Animals in Motion: A Series of Photographs Illustrating the Consecutive Positions Assumed by Animals in Performing Various Movements; Executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879

Eadweard Muybridge
Album with matte albumen prints on printing out paper
19th C. U.S.A. Illustrated Book
JLS.13932.1-177

Leaping (Contact with ground)
from Skeleton of Horse

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A. Album Page-Bound
JLS.13932.176

Leaping (Over the hurdle)
from Skeleton of Horse

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A. Album Page-Bound
JLS.13932.175

Leaping (Leaving the ground)
from Skeleton of Horse

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A. Album Page-Bound
JLS.13932.174

Running (Contact with ground)
from Skeleton of Horse

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A. Album Page-Bound
JLS.13932.173

Running (Off the ground)
from Skeleton of Horse

Eadweard Muybridge
Albumen print
19th C. U.S.A. Album Page-Bound
JLS.13932.172

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