Time Stands Still Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement

Name: Time Stands Still Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement
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ISBN: 9780195149630

ISBN-10: 0195149637

ISBN-13: 9780195149630

Edition: 2003

Authors: Phillip Prodger

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Eadweard Muybridge, one of the great pioneer-innovators of the 19th century, is a familiar figure to students of art history, photography, and cinema. Best known for the photographs of horses and other animals in motion that he made in the 1870s and '80s, Muybridge was the first person to use photography to freeze rapid action for analysis and study. He devised a method for photographing episodes of behavior using a series of cameras, producing some of the most famous sequential photographs ever made. These pictures, the first successful photographs of rapidly moving subjects, revolutionized expectations of what photography could reveal about the natural world, and ultimately led to the…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 11.30" wide x 8.80" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 3.300
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Chronology


A Time and Place: Eadweard Muybridge and His Legacy


In the Blink of an Eye: The Rise of the Instantaneous Photography Movement, 1839-78


How to Make an Instantaneous Photograph


Make It Stop: Muybridge and the New Frontier in Instantaneous Photography


The First Zoopraxiscope Disc: The First Motion Picture?


Never Seen This Picture Before: Muybridge in Multiplicity



The Larkyns Affair


Checklist of the Exhibition


Selected Bibliography


Index