Eadweard Muybridge (/ˌɛdwÉ™rd ˈmaɪbrɪdÊ'/; 9 April 1830 â€" 8 May
1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer
important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion,
and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name
Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname
Muybridge, believing it to be similarly archaic.Born in Kingston upon
Thames in the United Kingdom, at age 20 he emigrated to America as a
bookseller, first to New York, and then to San Francisco. Planning a
return trip to Europe in 1860, he suffered serious head injuries in a
stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in
Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography,
learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two
British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Francisco in
1867. In 1868 he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, which
made him world-famous.In 1874 Muybridge shot and killed Major Harry
Larkyns, his wife's lover, but was acquitted in a jury trial on the
grounds of justifiable homicide. In 1875 he travelled for more than a
year in Central America on a photographic expedition. Eadweard Muybridge Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter