The Galloping Horse By Eadweard Muybridge
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The Photograph above is called the Galloping Horse which is a sequence of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge. He was an English-born American photographer and inventor who at age 20, immigrated to America, first to New York, as a bookseller, and then to San Francisco . Muybridge had left for about 7 years but then returned, as a professional photographer. He was successful by photographing mostly landscapes and architectural structures. In 1872, Leland Stanford a businessman, the ex-governor of California at the time, and race-horse owner hired Muybridge to photograph horses . He had to ask himself a question which was if all four feet of a horse were off the ground at the same time while trotting or galloping. He then began experimenting