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Fascinating, profusely illustrated biography not only details Muybridge's groundbreaking photographic work, but also recounts his early life in England and then as a San Francisco photographer, his stormy relationship with Leland Stanford; his marriage to a beauty less than half his age and his acquittal on murder charges after shooting her lover. Also described: Muybridge's collaboration with artist Thomas Eakins and his influence on such artists as Frederic Remington and Marcel Duchamp. Invaluable to cinema students, photographers, and anyone interested in early motion-picture history.
Eadweard Muybridge FROM THE PUBLISHER
Fascinating, profusely illustrated biography not only details Muybridge's groundbreaking photographic work, but also recounts his early life in England and then as a San Francisco photographer, his stormy relationship with Leland Stanford; his marriage to a beauty less than half his age and his acquittal on murder charges after shooting her lover. Also described: Muybridge's collaboration with artist Thomas Eakins and his influence on such artists as Frederic Remington and Marcel Duchamp. Invaluable to cinema students, photographers, and anyone interested in early motion-picture history.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Having written many articles and three books about the history of American motion picture invention, Hendricks here presents a biography of a towering figure behind the innovators. Muybridge (1830-1904) left England for the US in his early 20s, and his work with sequential images in California and the University of Pennsylvania laid the conceptual and procedural groundwork for motion pictures, which then only awaited flexible film to be born. The 1975 edition was published by Grossman Publishers. The work is cited in Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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