River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West - Softcover

Solnit, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142004103 ISBN 13: 9780142004104

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2004

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Praise for River of Shadows

"Never less than deeply intelligent, and often very close to inspired. It belongs to that wondrous class of books - like William Gass's On Being Blue and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet - in which an extraordinary mind seizes hold of an unexpected topic and renders it with such confidence, subtlety and grace that one finds it hard to remember what things looked like before the book appeared in the world." --The New York Times Book Review

"Solnit's prose combines in individual paragraphs the imagery of a poet, the ideas of the theoretician, the rhythm of a thoroughbred and the force of a Southern Pacific locomotive." --The San Francisco Chronicle

"This portrait of a man, a place, a time, a technology, an art and various other matters that elude encapsulation shines on nearly every page with rigor and gusto and is consistently a delight to read." --The Los Angeles Times

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A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover, tracing how his life reflected America in the nineteenth century. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0142004103
• ISBN 13: 9780142004104
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320