Edweard Muybridge

Edweard was an English photographer who spent most of his life in The United States. He is known for hie pieces of animals. He used to film animals and capture their everyday motions. He also invented his zoopraxiscope which is a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

He emigrated to the US, arriving in San Francisco in 1855, where he started a career as a publisher's agent and bookseller. He left San Francisco at the end of the 1850s, and, after a stagecoach accident in which he received severe head injuries, returned to England for a few years. While recumperating, he got into photography and really enjoyed it.