Eadweard Muybridge broke new ground in the emerging art form of photography. Best known for his extensive portrayal of animal and human subjects in motion, he was also a landscape photographer, documentary artist and inventor. Joanna Pitman reviews a new retrospective at Tate Britain, London
M was both scientist and artist as his photography reveals.
An artistic sensibility but carefully and thoughtfully considered photographs!
Landscape pictures of American West. Commissioned to photograph Alaska that had just been bought by the American government.
First to climb up Yosemite with plate glass cameras. Dangerous .. porters refused to follow!
Used skies from other photographs even cut down trees to create better views.
Wife Flora, left alone when M went off on trips. She had an affair with someone and when M found out, M went and killed him. Was however, acquitted in court!
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