The Man Who Stopped Time: Eadweard Muybridge, Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer
by Brian Clegg 
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"The photography of Eadweard Muybridge is immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer." "In his work, we see some of the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants, and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their use somewhere in today's media. And if most of us have seen show more Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema and television." "But it is his personal life that possesses all the ingredients of a classic nonfiction best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic advances and discoveries, one hotly following another; the nervous intensity of two spectacular courtroom dramas (one pitting Muybridge against the richest man in the land and staring ruin in the face, the other leaving him fighting for his life). And for the opening act, a foul murder on a dark and stormy night."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Generally interesting and well written bio that really would have benefited from the use of Muybridge photographs. Strangely, Clegg uses only a handful, and these are mostly of equipment. The only photo from Muybridge's work (aside from the cover) is of a girl with MS walking with her aide. Clegg also gets a little sidetracked with technical explanations that are not always clearly broken down into simple terms. But his use of humor and circumstantial oddities is refreshing.
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Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modeling of human psychology and behavior.
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- Canonical title
- The Man Who Stopped Time: Eadweard Muybridge, Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer
- Original publication date
- 2007-03-28
- People/Characters
- Eadweard Muybridge; Leland Stanford; William Pepper; Harry Larkyns
- Important places
- Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK; San Francisco, California, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dedication
- For Gillian, Chelsea, and Rebecca
- First words
- Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian marvel. (Preface)
At four minutes to four on the afternoon of October 17, 1874, pedestrians scattered as a tall, wild-eyed man with a flowing Tennysonian beard burst out of the studios of San Francisco photographers Bradley and Rulofson. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There can be no doubt that Muybridge was the first to bring motion to the big screen and, most importantly, the man whose instantaneous photography of motion enabled us to stop time as never before.
- Publisher's editor
- Robbins, Jeff
- Blurbers
- Nimtz, Gunter; Lloyd, Mark Frazier
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 778.5 — Arts & recreation Photography Specific fields and special kinds of photography Film making
- LCC
- TR849 .M84 .C64 — Technology Photography Photography Cinematography. Motion pictures
- BISAC
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.63)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
