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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Eadweard Muybridge Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Kingston to California; 2. Helios in America; 3. The Wild Wild West; 4. Love, Loss and Central America; 5. Panoramic San Francisco; 6. Stopping Time on Stanford's Ranch; 7. Touring Europe; 8. Making Animal Locomotion; 9. Final Years; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama--including a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Braun's revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman. In the 1870s, Muybridge's photography skills w |
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Print version record |
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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Essays.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Monographs.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780230009 |
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1780230001 |
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