Eadweard Muybridge: Bibliography & Resources
Books, documentaries, and scholarly resources
Books
Animal Locomotion
Muybridge's monumental work of 781 collotype plates, produced at the University of Pennsylvania, recording humans and animals in motion; the foundational atlas of movement photography.
Animals in Motion
A popular, abridged presentation of Muybridge's motion studies of animals, arranging his sequential photographs in gridded panels for a general and artistic audience.
The Human Figure in Motion
A companion volume gathering Muybridge's sequential studies of the human body in action, long used as a reference by artists, including the painter Francis Bacon.
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
An acclaimed cultural biography placing Muybridge at the center of the technological and social transformations of the nineteenth-century American West.
ISBN: 978-0142004104
The Inventor and the Tycoon
A narrative history of Muybridge's life, his motion experiments, and his murder of Harry Larkyns, set against his patronage by railroad magnate Leland Stanford.
ISBN: 978-0767929400
Exhibition Catalogs
Eadweard Muybridge
The catalogue of the major touring retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Tate Britain, surveying Muybridge's photography and motion studies.