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Title: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0-670-03176-3 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More than just the photos
Comment: Like many people, I had seen Muybridge's motion studies before, but had never considered the man behind the pictures. Solnit presents a compelling portrait of a man who is at the same time probably certifiably nuts, a genius years ahead of his time, a lousy husband and father, and a murderer. As Solnit points out, his groundbreaking work was really the basis for motion pictures and much of other technology we take for granted today.
I took this book with me on an overnight flight to Brazil and compulsively read it cover to cover while I should have been sleeping.
Rating: 5
Summary: Much more than Muybridge
Comment: I wasn't especially interested in Muybridge, but this book is a good deal more than that. Though not stinting on detail, Solnit's writing and intellectual abilities provide a grasp of the transformations of time and space that occurred in the past century and a half; she addresses, and conquers, the challenges of making another age vivid and profound as has no book I've yet encountered. "She writes like an angel," one critic said, and it's quite true; through her supple and sensitive prose she reflects on Muybridge's life and times, examining them from every angle, and in so doing gives a clinic in how history of any kind may be most richly approached.
Rating: 5
Summary: Annihilation of time and other concepts
Comment: Rebecca Solnit has created a provocative masterpiece! This is not a simple biography about one of the great innovators of the field of photography. It is a richly, intellectually layered work that explores the big ideas of time and our relationship to it; the fusion of politics, science and industry in the 19th century; and links today's Silicon West to what we call the Wild West of our past. She possesses exceptional writing skills. This is book well worth reading by those seeking inspiration to invent the future, or for those who wish insight into the concept of progress.
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Title: Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0140286012 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0520220668 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0820324930 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement by Phillip Prodger ISBN: 0195149645 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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