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Eadweard muybridge, english photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motionpicture projection. Original materials, 18721880, include images of the stanfords residences in sacramento and san francisco, other unidentified estates, and two printed cards from his horse in motion. Department of special collections, stanford university libraries the first time i saw volcan quezaltenangoguatemala, i laughed. A wonderfully designed and informative book on this pioneer of photography the motion picture. Eadweard muybridge revealed a new universe of motion with his camera, but history has largely obscured his extraordinary accomplishments with photography. Tesseract, 20min experimental film expressing eadweard muybridge s obsession with time and its images at the turn of the century. Eadweard muybridge books list of books by author eadweard.
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