Englishman Eadweard Muybridge establishes his reputation in…

Englishman Eadweard Muybridge establishes his reputation in 1867 with photos of the Yosemite Valley wilderness (some of which used the same scenes taken by his contemporary Carleton Watkins) and areas around San Francisco.

Muybridge quickly gains notice for his landscape photographs, which show the grandeur and expansiveness of the West; if human figures are portrayed, they are dwarfed by their surroundings, as in Chinese landscape paintings.

He signs and publishes his work under the pseudonym Helios, which he also uses as the name of his studio.

Born Edward James Muggeridge, he had left San Francisco in 1860 as a merchant, but returned in 1867 as a professional photographer, with highly proficient technical skills and an artist's eye.

He will use the surname "Muybridge" for the rest of his life.

He has rapidly become successful in photography, focusing principally on landscape and architectural subjects, as do other prominent men, when the West is the land of imagination.

He has converted a light carriage vehicle into a portable darkroom to carry out his work.

His business cards also advertise his services for portraiture.

His stereographs, the popular format of the time, are sold by various galleries and photographic entrepreneurs (most notably the firm of Bradley & Rulofson) on Montgomery Street, San Francisco's main commercial street during these years.