2. Eadweard Muybridge
• Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer
known for his work with landscapes, panorama and
motion photography. Muybridge started a career as a
publisher's agent for the London Printing and
Publishing Company, and as a bookseller. Muybridge
rapidly became successful in photography, focusing
principally on landscape and architectural subjects, as
did other prominent men, when the West was the land
of imagination. In 1879, Muybridge invented the
zoopraxiscope. The zoopraxiscope is an early device for
displaying motion pictures. It projected images from
rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the
impression of motion.
