Braun, Marta, author.

Eadweard Muybridge / Marta Braun.

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2010.

255 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Critical lives

"Marta Braun's Eadweard Muybridge will be a fundamental contribution to the history of the photographic representation of locomotion."--Jonathan Miller.
"Offers a new perspective on Muybridge's life and work and corrects misinterpretations of his locomotion photography. A valuable, first-rate work that's a pleasure to read."--Ed Burtynsky, Photographer.
Best known for his unique contribution to the development of motion pictures, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering British photographer whose career was made in America. Enlisted by a railroad baron who bred racehorses to solve the 'unsupported motion controversy' (the theory that during a horse's stride, there is a moment when all four legs are off the ground). Muybridge's successes in sequence photography made him famous worldwide. He went on to invent the zoopraxiscope, an ingenious magic lantern showing simulated movement, while his years of electro-photographic experiments on motion studies of animals and humans resulted in Animal Locomotion, an astonishing scientific atlas of movement comprising hundreds of plates. Marta Braun's expert study of a true innovator and driven entrepreneur also examines the melodramatic and other personal events that punctuated Muybridge's reinventions as artist, photographer, scientific researcher and showman lecturer. They include a near-fatal stagecoach accident that left him mentally scarred for life, and a trial for murder. This book is a rewarding account of an extraordinary life that began in earnest in the Wild West of the Gold Rush era. --Book Jacket.

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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard 1830-1904
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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 271327
Cote: BIB 204345
Statut: Disponible