Main entry:

Solnit, Rebecca.

Title & Author:

River of shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west / Rebecca Solnit.

Publication:

New York : Viking, 2003.

Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
The annihilation of time and space -- The man with the cloudy skies -- Lessons of the golden spike -- Standing on the brink -- Lost river -- A day in the life, two deaths, more photographs -- Skinning the city -- Stopping time -- The artist in motion and at rest -- From the center of the world to the final frontier -- Chronology.
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner, 2003

Summary:

A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover.

Resources:
Sample text
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0670031763 (alk. paper)
9780670031764 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard 1830-1904
Muybridge, Eadweard.
Cinematographers United States Biography.
Photographers United States Biography.
Chronophotography History.
Directeurs de la photographie États-Unis Biographies.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Chronophotographie Histoire.
Chronophotography.
Cinematographers.
Photographers.
Fotografie
Cinematographers Biography.
Photographers Biography.
United States.
USA Weststaaten

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Quotations (texts)
collective biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227630
Call No.: TR140.M993 S5 2003
Status: Available