As a photographer myself I have always been a fan of Eadweard Muybridge’s work. He was one of the first photographers I learned about in college and today I learned about his connection with UPenn!
In 1883 Penn provost, William Pepper, proposed a University sponsored scientific project to use photography to study the movement of humans and animals. Penn’s veterinary hospital provided animals to photograph. Penn also gave Muybridge a stipend and a studio on 36th and Pine (now Rhoads Pavilion).
Even cooler is that Penn archives still have most all of Muybridge’s photographic plates, which are available to our students and faculty. Talk about hands-on learning! Those plates are a priceless piece of history!
The article is quite interesting and even talks about some of Muybridge’s dark criminal past. You can read it here.
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