Eadweard Muybridge's motion towards Tate Britain

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Eadweard Muybridge’s motion towards Tate Britain

The Tate hosts the biggest ever exhibition of the photography pioneer, whose life was as intriguing as his moving images

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/27/eadweard-muybridge-tate-britain-motion-studies

Less well known are details of his colourful life – including that he shot dead his wife’s lover and abandoned his child to an orphanage – and his artistic career, which encompassed spectacular landscape photography using pioneering techniques.