117. The Horse in Motion. Edweard Muybridge. 1878 CE Albumen print.

• Patronage
  • Hired by Leland Stanford to settle a bet to see if a horse’s four hooves could be off the ground at the same time during a natural gallop
• Technique
  • The photographer used a device called a zoopraxiscope to settle the bet
  • Cameras snap photos at evenly spaced points along a track, giving the effect of things happening in a sequence
  • For the time, it was very fast shutter speeds, nearly 1/2000th of a second
  • Photography now advanced enough that it can capture moments the human eye cannot
  • These motion studies bridge the gap between still photography and motion pictures
• Content
  • One photograph with sixteen separate images of a horse galloping
  • Images could be played in a sequence to stimulate motion pictures