- Photographers, Cinematographers, Chronophotography, Biography
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.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Rebecca Solnit
- First published
- January 27, 2003
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Tandem Library, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142004104
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“In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse.”
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