English photographer who spent most of his life abroad.
Pioneering work on animal locomotion.
He killed his wifes lover.
He used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed.
He was born Edward but changed his name to Eadweard because of the Spanish influence on Californian place names.
He created two panoramas of San Francisco, one seventeen foot long.
He invented (1881) the zoopraxiscope which projected animated pictures on a screen, a forerunner of the motion picture.
He died on April 8, 1904 in Kingston upon Thames.
He had his son put in an orphanage, he didn’t believe that it was his son.
In the summer of 1873 he was commissioned to photograph the Modoc War.
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