Cindy Sherman & Eadweard Muybridge

By turning the camera on herself, Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of the late twentieth century. Although, the majority of her photographs are pictures of her, however, these photographs are most definitely not self-portraits. Rather, Sherman uses herself as a vehicle for commentary on a variety of issues of the modern world: the role of the woman, the role of the artist and many more. It is through these ambiguous and eclectic photographs that Sherman has developed a distinct signature style. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has raised challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art. - www.cindysherman.com

Shermans style is unlike a normal self portrait photographer, she chooses to photograph herself in a set that helps to portray a meaningful message, mostly about the role of women in the modern world. This to me seems like a feminist style however she does not class her work as feminism.

Some examples of her work can be seen below...

Eadweard Muybridge

Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras. This experiment proved indisputably for the first time what no eye had previously seen – that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in the action of running. Seeking a means of sharing his ground-breaking work, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences, which anticipated subsequent developments in the history of cinema.

A prolific photographer who changed the history of photography and the moving image.

This photograph also makes me think about the layout of my set of images, I could set my story out like this, long and thin with two rows so that it will be read left to right. Very nice layout!