EADWEARD JAMES MUYBRIDGE - ZOOPRAXISCOPE WALTZING COUPLE 1

In 1893 Muybridge attends the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago and provides a work entitled 'Descriptive
Zoopraxography'. The Zoopraxiscope is the star
of the show as Muybridge presents his work at his Zoopraxigraphicall
Hall.

The
Zoopraxiscope operated by projecting images (drawn
from photographs in some cases) rapidly and in
succession onto the screen.

The
photographs were painted onto a glass disc for
the Zoopraxiscope (even though the Hallotype
photographic process allowed photographs
to be placed onto glass). When rotated and projected within the
Zoopraxiscope the spinning disc provided an illusion
of motion.