Jumping, Standing Broad Jump

Active in the United States and Europe, Edward Muybridge built a reputation in the late 1860s for landscape views of the American West. He was also a pioneer in capturing motion through photography, developing with John D. Isaacs an electrical trigger that allowed up to twenty-four cameras to be set off sequentially to capture the incremental movements of animals or human figures. Animal Locomotion, published in London in 1887, featured 781 plates of 20,000 photographs documenting Muybridge's motion experiments. His zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting moving images, was a precursor to the motion picture.