Exhibition Information

Edward Muybridge and Harold Edgerton
Selected works (reproductions)

Muybridge spent most of his career improving his image capturing technique, making a huge variety of motion studies, lecturing, and publishing. As a result of his motion studies, he is regarded as one of the fathers of the motion picture.


Muybridge’s successor Edgerton was best known for his discoveries pertaining to a study of photographic exposure. His inventions enabled him to reduce exposure time to less than a millionth of a second. As an accomplished engineer, he applied his innovative thinking to develop new photographic equipment and techniques. His name will be always associated with the power of photography and sense of wonder in everyday events.


“Don’t make me out to be an artist.  I am an engineer. I am after the facts. Only the facts.” - Harold Egerton

Both men were innovators in a field of photography, and more specifically the moving image as it pertains to the main exhibition. These inventions changed the course of the film evolution for generations to come.

The exhibition was curated by Martine Barnaby, associate professor of graphic design and digital media in the Art and Art History department at SUNY Cortland. Works are on view from January 22 to February 18, 2018.

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