Student Worksheet 9b

INSTRUCTIONS: Read this text about Running (Galloping), 1878–1879, by Eadweard J. Muybridge and answer the questions that follow.

Ex-Governor of California Leland Stanford had a job for the photographer Eadweard Muybridge: show how a horse runs. Stanford loved to race horses and wanted to understand more about how they ran. He thought that horses, when running, sometimes had all their feet off the ground—but the horses moved too fast for the human eye or for a camera to see if this was true.
So, Muybridge made a system of twenty-four cameras with wires that a horse would trip when it ran. The twenty-four photographs showed that Stanford was right! Muybridge later made a machine that added motion to pictures, creating the world’s first movie!

Eadweard Muybridge made these photographs to prove a scientific point. What are some other reasons photographs are made?

How do you use photography in your own life?