Eadweard Muybridge
Marta Braun
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Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach accident, a betrayal and a murder trial. Marta Braun's new biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman. Muybridge's opportunity in photography came in the 1870s, when his skills were enlisted by a racehorse breeder to prove the 'unsupported motion controversy' - the theory that during a horse's stride, there was a moment when all four ... Read more
Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach accident, a betrayal and a murder trial. Marta Braun's new biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman. Muybridge's opportunity in photography came in the 1870s, when his skills were enlisted by a racehorse breeder to prove the 'unsupported motion controversy' - the theory that during a horse's stride, there was a moment when all four ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861897602
SKU
V9781861897602
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About Marta Braun
Marta Braun is Professor at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the author of Picturing Time: the Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1992) and in 1999 was co-winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award for the book Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (1998).
Reviews for Eadweard Muybridge
'Braun's meticulous study is rich in detail' - Guardian 'tells [Maybridge's] story with clarity and economy and is particularly good on the battle between science and art in his photographs' - The Art Newspaper 'Braun's detailed study of the life and work show a complicated man, a combination of "technical wizard, show-business pioneer, popular scientist and artist", whose work transformed ... Read more