Eadweard Muybridge is at The Tate until 16th January 2011.
I thought I knew a lot about Muybridge until spending a couple of hours at this wonderfully curated exhibition which comes from the Corcoran in Washington, DC.
I think curators should be given the same headlines as an author or a director of a film but you'd struggle to know who was responsible for this or any other exhibition. But after a bit of scrambling around I found them to be Ian Warrell and Carolyn Kerr and well done them.
Anyway, do try and see this extraordinary man's work who was born in Kingston upon Thames in April 1830, as Edward James Muggeridge, he spent most of his working life on the west coast of America just as the railroad reached San Francisco. He changed his name to Muybridge, was paid astonishingly high commissions $20k to $30k for his photography and for good measure he shot his wife's lover but was found not guilty in court. He was a massive innovator throughout his long life as this wonderful exhibition illustrates.
Go see it.