Artist 1 - Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer who lived most of his life in the United States. In 1866, he started to  become successful in photography, focusing principally on landscape and architectural subjects. But perhaps what he is known for the most is his zoopractiscope. This was a device meant to project motion pictures.

 It all started when he was hired to settle the question: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during a gallop. Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a zoopractiscope. The series of photos is one of the earliest forms of videography and is practically the start of cinematography.