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    Muybridge Photographs Reinvented As Animated GIFs

    Most famous for his iconic racehorse time lapse photographs, Eadweard Muybridge revolutionized early photography. These are some of his 19th century time lapse photographs put into motion.

    Angela Meiquan Wang
    by Angela Meiquan Wang

    BuzzFeed Creative

    The photographs that changed it all:

    digitaljournalist.org

    This set of images was the first to prove that a horse gallops with all four legs off the ground, a groundbreaking series for both motion studies and motion-picture projection.

    Here it is in motion:

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    More GIFs created with Muybridge's time lapse photos:

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