TIME STANDS STILL: EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE & THE INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY MOVEMENT
Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 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 New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Softcover in pictorial wrappers. First Edition; First Printing. 10.94 x 8.43 inches; 328 pages with numerous photographic images throughout. Text in English. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy with light shelf wear to covers.
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 invention of the motion picture in the mid-1890s. Time Stands Still is the catalogue that accompanies a major exhibition celebrating Muybridge's fascinating work. Though the instantaneous photography movement stands as a crucial event in the progression of photography to motion pictures, this exhibition represents the first major organized treatment of the subject. Opening in spring 2003 at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and touring through 2004, it combines an examination of the artist's career in motion photography with a survey of early attempts to photograph moving subjects. Guest curator Phillip Prodger is the primary author of the catalogue, but the book also includes a valuable essay covering cinema's earliest experiments by Tom Gunning. Fine. Item #2804
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