Philip Glass: PHOTOGRAPHER Act I “A Gentelman’s Honor“

Philip Glass dedicated album “Photographer“ (1983) to Eadweard Muybridge. Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830 May 8, 1904) was a British-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion. Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston-on-Thames, England. He is believed to have changed his first name to match that of King Eadweard as shown on the plinth of the Kingston coronation stone, which was re-erected in Kingston in 1850. Muggeridge became Muygridge and then Muybridge after he had emigrated to America. Muybridge started his career as a publisher’s agent and bookseller, but developed an interest in photography that seems to have been boosted when he was recovering in England after nearly being killed in a stagecoach crash. It has been suggested that he acted as an assistant to landscape photographer Carleton E. Watkins, but there is little evidence of this. Muybridge began to build his reputation in 1867 with photos of Yosemit