Eadweard Muybridge - His Influence On Others

His Influence On Others

• Étienne-Jules Marey — recorded the first series of live action photos with a single camera by a method of chronophotography
• Thomas Eakins — American artist who worked with and continued Muybridge's motion studies, and incorporated the findings into his own artwork
• William Dickson — credited as inventor of the motion picture camera
• Thomas Edison — developed and owned patents for motion picture cameras
• Marcel Duchamp — artist, painted Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• Harold Eugene Edgerton — pioneered stroboscopic and high speed photography and film, producing an Oscar-winning short movie and many striking photographic sequences
• Francis Bacon — painted from his photographs
• John Gaeta — used the principles of his photography to create the bullet time slow-motion technique of the 1999 movie The Matrix.
• Steven Pippin — so-called Young British Artist who converted a row of laundromat washing machines into sequential cameras in the style of Muybridge
• Wayne McGregor - UK choreographer collaborated with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and artist Mark Wallinger on a piece entitled "Undance", inspired by Muybridge's 'action verbs'

According to Tate Britain, "His influence has forever changed our understanding and interpretation of the world, and can be found in many diverse fields, from Marcel Duchamp’s painting Nude Descending a Staircase and countless works by Francis Bacon, to the blockbuster film The Matrix and Philip Glass’s opera The Photographer."