The man who stopped time
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Brian Clegg tells the extraordinary story of the pioneer of photography, Eadweard Muybridge.
Eadweard Muybridge's extraordinary personal story has all the ingredients of drama. He was born in the English suburbs, and set out to seek adventure and fortune in the American Wild West. While visiting Europe his coach overturned, and he was treated for a fractured skull. It was at this time that photography grew. Muybridge became a pioneering innovator, who not only invented new methods of photography, but devised 'a flying studio' which enabled him to develop his pictures in the field.
He was betrayed by his wife, and risked everything by killing her lover. Muybridge's work is iconic, the picture of the moving horse, which proved how it lifted its four feet off the ground simultaneously, known throughout the world. His distinctive stop-motion pictures of men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living, have become some of the most famous images in the history of photography and science.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 augustus 2007
Aantal pagina's: 272
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Brian Clegg
Tweede Auteur: Joseph Henry Press
Co Auteur: National Academy Of Sciences
Hoofduitgeverij: The History Press Ltd
Editie: UK ed.
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 156 mm
Product hoogte: 10 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 0.74 kg
EAN: 9780750948623