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EADWEARD
MUYBRIDGE
Eadweard James Muybridge (9 April 1830 8 May 1904) was an English photographer important for his
pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name
Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name. He immigrated to the
United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite
Valley, California, made him world famous. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion
in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his
zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used
in cinematography.

DUANE MICHALS

Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often
incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.
Though he has not been involved in gay civil rights, his photography has addressed gay themes. Michals cites Balthus, William Blake, Lewis
Carroll, Thomas Eakins, Ren Magritte, and Walt Whitman as influences on his art. In turn, he has influenced photographers such as David
Levinthal and Francesca Woodman.
He is noted for two innovations in artistic photography developed in the 1960s and 1970s. First, he "[told] a story through a series of photos as in
his 1970 book Sequences. Second, he handwrote text near his photographs, thereby giving information that the image itself could not convey.

Trust that little voice in your head that

says
'Wouldn't it be interesting if...';
And then do it.