Trivia questions from the reading: What was the wager? and how much did it cost Stanford to win the bet?
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was the first person to break continuous motion (horses running) into discrete photographic units. In 1872 California governor Leland Stanford hired Muybridge to help him win a $25,000 wager. Muybridge set up 24 cameras along a racing track and attached a string to each camera shutter and stretched the strings across the track.
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