Qui êtes vous, Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering work and research concerning photography and motion pictures remains legendary up to today.  Inventor of the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of photographs as short moving sequences, he created a series of internationally acclaimed images capturing humans and animals in motion.  Muybridge influenced artists like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Bacon, to name but a few, whereas a few years ago Tate Britain held a unique exhibition dedicated to his ingenious work.

Qui êtes vous, Gertrude Stein?

Gertrude Stein constituted a distinguished, influential figure of the arts world of the 20th century. Her house in 27 rue de Fleurus, in Paris, which she shared with her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas, became a meeting point for the “new moderns” movement of the time i.e. writers, poets and artists like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Stein was an unconventional, dynamic literary icon and a renowned advocate of the avant-garde; among her most inspiring works are "The Making of Americans", "How to Write" and "Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems".