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, Cindy Sherman?

Cindy Sherman is a photographer and filmmaker from the United States. In her conceptual works of art she often uses herself as model to depict the role of woman or artist in modern society. "The Complete Untitled Film Still" is one of her most famous photograph series whereas in her following work, "History Portraits", she reconstructs famous paintings through her lens and uses herself as a model once more. Sherman is also a skillfull filmmaker and in 1997 she directed the comedy - horror fim "Office Killer". She lives and works in New York.