Jackson, WH (English spelling) JacksonWH

Japanese: Jackson,W.H.(英語表記)JacksonWH
Jackson, WH (English spelling) JacksonWH

…It was around this time that he began to take photographs, taking huge wet plate photographs of the landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, including Yosemite Valley. Muybridge's landscape photographs, along with those of his contemporaries Carleton Watkins (1825-1916), William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), and Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1982), are famous for recording the landscapes of the American West during the pioneering era. In 1872, at the request of Leland Stanford (former Governor of California), he created a special photosensitive plate and exposure device to settle a controversy over whether a horse's four legs leave the ground when it runs, and succeeded in taking high-speed instantaneous photographs, proving that its four legs leave the ground. …

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Japanese:

…このころから写真を始め,ヨセミテ渓谷をはじめとするロッキー山脈の風景を巨大な湿板で撮影した。このマイブリッジの風景写真は,同時代のワトキンスCarleton Watkins(1825‐1916),ジャクソンWilliam Henry Jackson(1843‐1942),オサリバンTimothy H.O’Sullivan(1840‐82)らの写真とともに,開拓時代のアメリカ西部の景観を記録したものとして著名である。また72年,リランド・スタンフォード(元カリフォルニア州知事)の要請で,馬が走るとき4本の足が地上を離れるか否かという動物の運動についての論争に決着をつけるため,特別な感光板と露光装置をつくり高速度瞬間撮影に成功,4本の足が地上を離れることを証明した。…

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