Two pioneers in photography
helloIn the late 1800’s two people emerged that helped develop the moving picture, these were Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Marey. Both Muybridge and Marey were comtempories and correspondents who drew upon each other’s work, to develop ever more improving techniques of capturing movement through photography. ... On the third day, Muybridge, having studied the matter thoroughly, contrived to have two boards slip past each other by touching a spring, and in so doing to leave an eighth of an inch opening for the five-hundredth part of a second, as the horse passed, and by an arrangement of double lenses, crossed, secured a negative that shows "Occident" in full motion - a perfect likeness of the celebrated horse. ... His work in stop-action series photography soon led to his invention of the "zoopraxiscope," a primitive motion-picture machine which recreated movement by displaying individual photographs in rapid succession. This machine was demonstrated privately in America as early as 1879, and at public gatherings in Europe over the next two years. ... He returned to England in 1894 and did little photography in his last years. ... He died three years later at his native Kingston-on-the-Thames (Examples of his work can be found in the appendix) Etienne Jules Marey was a French physiologist, who was inspired by Muybridges work to think of new ways of studying movement through photography. ... Marey came up with two solutions. ... The brothers also made basic innovations in colour-photography. ... Muybridge and Marey both carried out extensive work in the field of photography in creating images that give the viewer the impression of movement, and it has been claimed by many that these two people should be credited with the invention of the ‘movie’, rather than the later Lumiere brothers.