Eadweard Muybridge went down to his bare skin in "Athlete Swinging a Pick" (1881) in order to show the full force of a human being that can be achieved through movement. Combining physiology and myth, this is also a first attempt at exposing how the camera can fake reality into fiction.

Potentially the earliest work of stop-action animation, Eadweard Muybridge's "Skeleton of Horse" (1881) entices us to the art with its elaborate attention to detail and crisp imagery – a beautiful reminder of the painstaking efforts of the scientists working on moving photography in the 19th century.