Main entry:

Braun, Marta.

Title & Author:

Eadweard Muybridge / Marta Braun.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2010.

Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Critical lives

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Kingston to California -- Helios in America -- The wild wild West -- Love, loss and Central America -- Panoramic San Francisco -- Stopping time on Stanford's ranch -- Touring Europe -- Making Animal locomotion -- Final years.

Summary:

Annotation. Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (18301904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodramaincluding a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Brauns revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridges life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman. In the 1870s, Muybridges photography skills were enlisted by Leland Stanford, a racehorse breeder who later founded Stanford University, to prove the unsupported motion controversythe theory that during a horses stride, there was a moment when all four of its legs left the ground. The resulting collection of motion studies, as Braun explains, inspired Muybridge to take photography beyond landscapes to the realm of science. He went on to invent the zoopraxiscope, which captures movement too quick for the human eye to record. Most importantly, simulating motion through a series of stills, his pioneering use of sequence photography served as a forerunner to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s. This illuminating study examines a man whose influence has resounded through generations. InEadweard Muybridge, Braun firmly establishes Muybridges central contributions to the history of art, science, photography, and motion pictures.

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ISBN:

9781780230009 (e-book)
1780230001 (e-book)
186189760X
9781861897602

Subject:

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard 1830-1904
Muybridge, Eadweard Biographie.
Muybridge, Eadweard.
Photographers Great Britain Biography.
Photographers United States Biography.
Photographes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographers
Photographie.
Great Britain
United States

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Biographies

Added entries:

Critical lives (London, England)