River of Shadows

An original telling of the story of Eadweard Muybridge, who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically, thus making movies possible. Solnit uses the story of Muybridge as a lens for a larger story about the transformation of time and space by railroads, telegraphy, photography, and myriad other contributions to the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. She boldly asserts that the world as we know it today began in California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

First sentence: In the spring of 1872 a man photographed a horse.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Viking Adult

Editions

3

Pages

305

ISBN

9780670031764

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