This photo was taken to represent the Modoc War and the intelligence of the Modoc Braves which was greatly underestimated. The Modoc War was also known as the Modoc Campaign. The US Army needed a photographer to capture images of the war between the two forces. They hired the famous photographer at the time to capture the movement on film, Eadweard Muybridge and titled the photograph of this particular photo "A Brave Modoc on the Warpath". The U.S. Army also couldn't get an action photo of a Modoc warrior without endangering the photographer's life. So she hired the Native American for the image, meaning he's not a Modoc warrior. Muybridge was the primary photographer from the start of the war to the early 1870s and the location of the war was in northeastern California. The photo “A Brave Modoc on the Path to War” highlights the hatred towards the US military for Modocs because they are willing to live in miserable conditions just to make Americans suffer. The interesting aspect of the image is that the Native American posing as a Modoc warrior wears the native attire and environment surrounding him to make the photo as authentic as possible, but he is using an American weapon which gives photography has an aspect of staging. I also think it's interesting that it looks like Muybridge just walked onto this scene, but this man is in such a stereotypical pose. The Modoc soldier in the photo may be using a stick to balance his weapon against the stiff stones he uses for cover against American forces. As you can see the physiques of the Modoc soldiers, how fit they are due to their reliance solely on manual labor to sustain themselves, whether it be hunting or building......middle of paper..... .o settle a bet to see if all of a horse's hooves were in the air while they were running. It was impossible to see this with the human eye alone. So, Muybridge was invited to help by Stanford, to which he agreed. Muybridge was never able to perfect the method of motion photography at the time as he had no work to do, using 12 cameras to take photographs of the horse running in a sequence shot he was able assume that Stanford's prediction was It is correct that all hooves left the ground and were in the air at the same time during the gallop. Muybridge went on to have a notable academic career that included teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1886, publishing several books explaining the processes of capturing moving photographs, and then sharing the process of a projection device that he invented, called Zoopraxiscope..