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"The world as we know it today began in California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and a man named Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's book, which weaves together biography, history, and insights into art, technology, landscape, and photography to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity.".
"During a period of feverish creativity that commenced in 1872, Eadweard Muybridge succeeded for the first time in capturing high-speed motion photographically - the crucial breakthrough that made movies possible. He also continued his series of photographs of the monumental landscape of the American West; served as official photographer of the Modoc War, California's most dramatic Native American conflict; and, in a blaze of publicity, stood trial for the murder of his wife's lover."--BOOK JACKET.
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Photographers, Cinematographers, Chronophotography, Biography, History, Photographers, biography, Muybridge, eadweard, 1830-1904Places
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
March 2, 2004, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
March 2004, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
1417704721 9781417704729
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River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
2004, Penguin Books
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
January 27, 2003, Viking Adult
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0670031763 9780670031764
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"In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse."
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"In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse."
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An original telling of the story of Eadweard Muybridge, who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically, thus making movies possible. Solnit uses the story of Muybridge as a lens for a larger story about the transformation of time and space by railroads, telegraphy, photography, and myriad other contributions to the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. She boldly asserts that the world as we know it today began in California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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