River of shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
by Rebecca Solnit
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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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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
2004, Penguin Books
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
March 2, 2004, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
March 2004, Tandem Library
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1417704721 9781417704729
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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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"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin ... 2003"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-293) and index.
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"In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse."
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