Eadweard Muybridge, Original Speed Racer

For years, the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge were the subject of internecine feuds at Harvard, where the university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and its Fogg Art Museum each claimed to be the rightful home of the eccentric photographer’s images of human and animal motion (like those pictured above). Today they can be found in various Cantabrigian collections, and soon Muybridge-inspired images will be seen in movie theaters worldwide. In making the film Speed