At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell: Eadweard Muybridge, 23 September 2010
“... Where earlier painters used Muybridge’s photographs to get the detail of their paintings right, Francis Bacon, drawn to their impersonal, objective quality, made subjects of, for example, Muybridge’s wrestlers. Meissonnier wanted a crib; Bacon had found a source. The frozen moment has now become a commonplace. In ... ”