The Man, the Myth, the Legend

It’s clear that there is a lot of controversy surrounding Eadweard Muybridge and his work. Was it science, was it art, or was it pornography? After doing research on Muybridge it seems most people view him as a scientist. He however, saw himself as an artist. I believe him to be an artist disguising himself as a scientist. He never really came to any conclusions about human movement or the human body. By calling his work science he was able to get the funding. He did however take thousands and thousands of pictures, many of which are beautiful.

However a lot of his “art” is very strange, and somewhat inappropriate. A lot of his nude photos were of people doing things that the normal person wouldn't. A lot of his border lined erotic and pornographic.

So what was he? I think I can comfortably say he was a very strange if not crazy person; he did kill a man for sleeping with his wife. His pictures never really contributed to science in the way that information about the human body was obtained. He was however, the father of cinema, his Zoopraxiscope lead to motion pictures. Without him the motion picture world would not be the same as it is today.