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Author Solnit, Rebecca.

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

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  778.53 SOLNIT    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  778.53 SO46    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  777.092 MUYBRIDGE S    Check Shelf
Description 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
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.
Contents 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.
Subject Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Cinematographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Chronophotography -- History.
ISBN 0670031763 alkaline paper
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