Word: eadweard
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...joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes 7-ft. figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries on the self-pride of mankind. Richard A. Miller, 42, casts a conventional bronze nude. But he does it three times in the exquisite feminine gait clearly following Eadweard Muybridge's sequence photo experiments of the 1880s of a walking nude. Frank Gallo, 31, scoops up plastic like ice cream and molds a life-sized nude slouched in a cantilevered sling chair as if she were left over from last night's orgy. Ideal for a living room...
Senator Leland Stanford of California [1824-93], a racing man, exploded this "hobbyhorse" pose long before the days of the movies. Wanting to know how a horse moved his legs, so they could be made to move faster, he hired a photographer [Eadweard Muybridge] to set up a series of cameras along the race track with threads stretched across the track and attached to the camera shutters so that as the horse ran past he took his own picture at intervals. When the plates were developed, the horse appeared in postures no artist had imagined . . . Frederic Remington was bold enough...
...horse breeder, bet two cronies $25,000 that there is a moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired...