Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:18 PM PST
San Francisco, CA - The rows of black-and-white photographs, each slightly different, feel like a slow-motion film: two men boxing, a horse and rider galloping, a cockatoo in flight. Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking work is the focus of “Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change,” which opened Saturday 26th February 2011 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOA). The fascinating exhibition, which originated at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., includes more than 300 objects created from 1857 to 1893.The series of sequential photographs will be familiar to viewers fond of Muybridge’s work; he showed that as horses run, they briefly lift all four hooves off the ground. The show is the first retrospective of the artist’s pioneering work. It includes Muybridge’s only surviving Zoopraxiscope — a device he designed in 1879 to project motion pictures.
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