You might not remember his name, but when you see his pictures, you’ll probably recognise the work of Eadweard Muybridge.
Working right at the start of the photographic era, Muybridge experimented with taking photos of movement – slicing the moves into static images, which could be re-animated by painting them on a spinning disk called a zoopraxiscope.
If you have an iPhone, you can create your own Muybridge-inspired works with a free app called Muybridgizer, created by London’s Tate Britain art gallery.
The app snaps multiple pictures of whatever’s moving and sticks them into a typically Muybridge-like scene of static images in a gallery (like the one above). You can also view each gallery in zoopraxiscope mode, where your finger “spins” the virtual drum of images to animate them and see the movement in action.
This is a great little app, great for teaching kids a little about the history of photography and animation, and fun for photographers of all ages to play with.
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