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Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 06.2003. - Check entry.

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Other edition: Pb. reprint 2004. Pb. reprint published under the title: Motion studies: Time, space & [and] Eadweard Muybridge. London 2004. - The world as we know it today began in California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This extraordinary assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's brilliant new work of cultural history. Weaving together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art, technology, landscape, and philosophy, Solnit has created a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. During a period of feverish creativity that commenced in 1872, Eadweard Muybridge succeeded for the first time in capturing and reanimating high-speed motion on film - the crucial breakthrough that made movies possible. He also continued his series of breathtaking photographs of the monumental landscape of the American West, served as official photographer of the grueling war against the Modoc Indians, and, in a blaze of publicity, stood trial for the murder of his wife's lover. In Solnit's taut, compelling narrative, Muybridge's life becomes a lens for a larger story about the transformation of time and space in the nineteenth century. With dazzling erudition and a rare mastery of the interlocking histories of art, technology, politics, and commerce, Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries-Hollywood and Silicon Valley-that have most powerfully defined the contemporary world. River of Shadows is Solnit's most captivating book yet-wide- ranging in its allusions, daring in its connections, always surprising in its conclusions. (Publisher’s text). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 01.2008.

Text engl. - An extremely rare edition cosisting of printed title page and written contents plus mounted prints, bound into a volume. Addison Gallery of American Art copy: 174 mounted albumen prints (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) in a leatherbound volume (10x13x4 inches). Also, there are two copies at the Library of Congess, Washington, DC - one in the Prints and Photographs Dept., the other in the Rare Book Dept. (03.2008).

Complete copies are extremely rare, and many collections of Muybridge plates never followed his sequencing in volumes - rather there are quite a number of collections who hold many single loose plates (which were available at the time of publication also) instead of 11 folio volumes incl. all 781 plates. Plate size ea. ca. 18 3/8x23 1/4 inches. Some plates show incorrect sequence numbers. A small parallel publication with the same title, but with an additional sentence „Prospectus and catalogue of plates“ lists all plates. - „ANS: 16 vols. in 2°. Plates 128, 137 and 531 in duplicate; pl. 47, 115, 128 (2), 131, 137 (1), 150, 195 and 531 (1), mutilated. - GEH missing plates: 11, 18, 61, 82, 85, 88, 95, 98,100, 101, 119, 131, 172, 173, 192, 224, 235, 250, 275, 341, 372, 384, 417, 430, 438, 440, 455, 473, 506, 551, 563, 568, 579, 603, 628, 632, 654, 661, 663, 670, 691, 697, 706, 712, 713, 716, 726, 728, 732, 735, 745, 766 (02.2008).

Stamped on panel 6: „Muybridge, Photo. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by Edw. J. Muybridge, in the office of Librarian of Congress at Washington. Morses Gallery. Panorama of San Francisco, from California St. Hill.“

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This book is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Grossman Publishers, a division of the Viking Press, New York, in 1975. - Fascinating biography not only details Muybridge's groundbreaking photographic work, but also recounts his early life in England, his stormy relationship with Leland Stanford, his marriage to a young beauty, and his acquittal on murder charges after shooting her lover, and reflections on his collaboration with artist Thomas Eakins and Muybridge’s influence on Frederic Remington and Marcel Duchamp.

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Other ed.: Fr. ed.: Esthétique du mouvement.

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*Other edition: First published under the title: River of shadows. Eadweard Muybridge and the technological Wild West. New York 2003.

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