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in Animal Locomotion Links Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of the moving image, is best remembered for this series of images capturing the gallop of a horse. These photographs settled the heavily-contested debate that a horse in stride will actually lift all four of its legs from the ground. Muybridge used 12 cameras, activated sequentially at 1/200ths of a second by the horse's movement over trigger strings. These motion studies, in giving form to time, carved the path for cinema and had a lasting resonance within the art world, influencing works from the Italian Futurists onward to Stan Brakhage. Muybridge, in Studies in Animal Locomotion, perfectly demonstrates the profound power of new media to affect our perception and understanding of reality. Submitted
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