See the Work
Where to experience Eadweard Muybridge's photographs in person, and resources to learn more
Permanent Collections
Institutions holding Eadweard Muybridge's original prints and negatives, plus the public-domain archive these images are drawn from.
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
The Prints & Photographs Division holds the FSA/OWI collection — thousands of Eadweard Muybridge's Depression-era photographs. All are in the public domain and available online.
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Washington, D.C.
Holds Muybridge's motion-study photographs, including The Horse in Motion plates, in its public-domain Prints and Photographs collections.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Site of Muybridge's 1883-1886 motion studies and a principal repository of material related to Animal Locomotion, in the public domain.
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Kingston upon Thames, England
Holds the Muybridge bequest, including zoopraxiscope discs, lantern slides, apparatus, and prints donated to his birthplace.
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Los Angeles, California
Important holdings of Muybridge's landscape photographs and motion-study plates.
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Stanford, California
Holds material connected to Muybridge's motion experiments commissioned by Leland Stanford at the Palo Alto farm.
Learn MoreMajor Exhibitions
Notable retrospectives and exhibitions of Eadweard Muybridge's work.
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
A major touring retrospective of Muybridge's photography and motion work, which traveled to Tate Britain and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Eadweard Muybridge
Tate Britain, London
The London presentation of the Corcoran-organized retrospective, surveying Muybridge's landscape photography, motion studies, and the zoopraxiscope.
Muybridge in California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
A presentation accompanying the touring retrospective, focusing on Muybridge's California landscape and motion work.
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The West Coast presentation of the touring retrospective surveying Muybridge's full career.
Books & Films About Eadweard Muybridge
Essential resources for understanding Eadweard Muybridge's life and work.
Essential Reading
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.
A popular, abridged presentation of Muybridge's motion studies of animals, arranging his sequential photographs in gridded panels for a general and artistic audience.
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.
An acclaimed cultural biography placing Muybridge at the center of the technological and social transformations of the nineteenth-century American West.
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.
Films & Other Resources
The catalogue of the major touring retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Tate Britain, surveying Muybridge's photography and motion studies.
Online Resources
Explore the Archive
Browse 340 Eadweard Muybridge photographs from the Library of Congress.
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