Cinematography
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Cinematography is the art of motion picture photography.
Arri Alexa, a digital movie camera
Georges Méliès (left) painting a backdrop in his studio
Live recording for TV on a camera with a Fujinon optical lens
A deep focus shot from Citizen Kane (1941): everything, including the hat in the foreground and the boy (young Charles Foster Kane) in the distance, is in sharp focus.
Eadweard Muybridge
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Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
Muybridge in 1899
Muybridge's childhood home in Kingston upon Thames
Photo of Vernal Fall at Yosemite by Eadweard Muybridge, 1872
Albumen silver print photograph of Muybridge in 1872 at base of the Ulysses S. Grant tree "71 Feet in Circumference" in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, by Carleton Watkins