Muybridge was born, 9th April 1830 and died 8th may 1904, he was an English photographer who studied motion and was famous for photographing frame by frame a horse running, which helped uncover the question of how horses legs move while running. Muybridge continued his study of motion and in the process created over 100,000 photographs of motion, this earned him some work in a motion picture project.
He imigrated to America at age 20 as a bookseller, first to new York and then to San Francisco, One return trip to England he suffered a serious head injury and spent the next few years recuperating in English where he took up professional photography.
In 1872, a businessman and race horse owner, hired Muybridge for photographic studies. He was tasked to figure out the question, whether all four feet of a horse were off the ground at the same while trotting. In 1874, Muybridge killed a man called Major Harry Larkyns, because he thought Larkyns might have fathered his wife's seven month old son.
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