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Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animal and human locomotion, 19th-century photographer
Eadweard Muybridge was also an innovative landscape artist and pioneer of documentary subjects.

Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, the first retrospective exhibition to examine all aspects of
Muybridge’s art, will be on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from April 10 through July 18, 2010.
Structured in a series of thematic sections, Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change includes
numerous vintage photographs, albums, stereographs, lantern slides, glass negatives and positives, camera
equipment, patent models, Zoopraxiscope discs, proof prints, notes, books, and other ephemera. Over 300
objects created between 1858 and 1893 are brought together for the first time from numerous international
collections. Muybridge’s only surviving Zoopraxiscope—an apparatus he designed in 1879 to project motion
pictures—will also be on view.

Organized by Corcoran chief curator and head of research Philip Brookman, the exhibition will travel to Tate
Britain in London from September 8, 2010 through January 16, 2011, and to the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art from February 26 through June 7, 2011.