Eadweard Muybridge, the famed photographer of motion studies and an individual considered the "father of cinema," is the subject of a upcoming exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 26 through June 7). The exhibit, "Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change," is also the subject of an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle.
Best known for his revolutionary studies of human and animal locomotion, which evolved into some of the earliest motion pictures, Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an accomplished landscape photographer, a pioneering documentarian, and a restlessly inventive entrepreneur.
This upcoming retrospective is the first to examine the full scope of Muybridge's vision, as well as his pivotal role in the creative transformation of 19th-century culture. The British-born Muybridge began his artistic career in the 1860s in California — then as now a fertile ground for innovation — and his images vividly capture a rapidly changing West. Bringing together hundreds of photographs and other objects made between 1858 and 1893, the exhibition offers a panoramic view of Muybridge's work within the landscape of his times.
Eadweard Muybridge, Jumping over boy's back (leap frog). Plate 169, 1887;
collotype on paper; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
image courtesy of SFMOMA
Among the contributors to the accompanying exhibition catalog is Rebeca Solnit. The acclaimed San Francisco writer has also authored an earlier book on the photographer, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, as well as being a contributor to Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theaters.
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