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Eadweard Muybridge

1830 - 1904

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Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname "Muybridge", believing it to be similarly archaic. A noted photographer in the 19th century American West, he photographed Yosemite, San Francisco, the newly acquired Alaskan Territory, subjects involved in the Modoc War, and lighthouses on the West Coast. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eadweard Muybridge has received more than 2,260,135 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Eadweard Muybridge is the 7th most popular photographer (down from 4th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 431st in 2019) and the most popular British Photographer.

Eadweard Muybridge is most famous for his sequential photographs of a horse in motion.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 7 out of 148. Before him are Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Alberto Korda, Robert Doisneau, and Alexander Rodchenko. After him are Dora Maar, Heinrich Hoffmann, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Gunter Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 13. Before him are Paul Heyse, Emily Dickinson, Hector Malot, Porfirio Díaz, Isma'il Pasha, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are Hans von Bülow, Louise Michel, Étienne-Jules Marey, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, Élisée Reclus, and Jules de Goncourt. Among people deceased in 1904, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 13. Before him are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Gabriel Tarde, and Abai Qunanbaiuly. After him are Henri Fantin-Latour, Vasily Vereshchagin, George, King of Saxony, Stepan Makarov, Paul Kruger, and Lafcadio Hearn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 531 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Anning (1799), Gerard Butler (1969), Albert Finney (1936), Ronnie Wood (1947), Stanley Baldwin (1867), and William Lassell (1799). After him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Tom Wilkinson (1948), Henry Every (1659), James Hutton (1726), Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), and Donald Pleasence (1919).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Eadweard Muybridge ranks 1. After him are Roger Fenton (1819), Cecil Beaton (1904), David Bailey (1938), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Alexander Gardner (1821), Allan Warren (1948), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), and Mick Rock (1948).

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