Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's illustrations of Central America / by Byron Wolfe & Scott Brady.

Main entry:

Wolfe, Byron, 1967- author, photographer.

Title & Author:

Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's illustrations of Central America / by Byron Wolfe & Scott Brady.

Publication:

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books ; Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [2017]

Description:

193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 32 cm

Notes:
Issued with supplemental booklet (35 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm), pasted onto front pastedown, containing reproductions of some of Muybridge's Central American photographs and of the "Supplement to Catalogue. Photographic views illustrating the Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico, the Isthmus of Panama, Guatemala, and the cultivation and shipment of coffee by Muybridge".
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

In 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panamá. Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (11 are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. In 2007, photographer Byron Wolfe (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge Central American photograph. Then, with cultural geographer Scott Brady, he traveled to many of Muybridge's sites to rephotograph them. Through photographic collage, interpretive rephotography, illustrations and essays, this book examines an exceptionally rare series by Muybridge. Also included is a catalogue of every known Muybridge Central American picture.

ISBN:

9781942185147 hardcover
1942185146 hardcover

Subject:

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Wolfe, Byron, 1967-
Landscape photography Central America.
Photographie de paysages Amérique centrale.
Landscape photography.
Pacific Coast (Central America) Pictorial works.
Central America Pictorial works.
Pacifique, Côte du (Amérique centrale) Ouvrages illustrés.
Amérique centrale Ouvrages illustrés.
Central America.
Central America Pacific Coast.

Form/genre:

Pictorial works.

Added entries:

Brady, Scott, author.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904, photographer.

Phantom skies and shifting ground

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 297959
Call No.: BIB 244271
Status: Available

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