Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

by Marta Braun, Corey Keller, Rebecca Solnit, et al.

In 1878, the Photographic Times claimed that ten minutes provided sufficient exposure for photographing a landscape. Six years earlier, an English immigrant to the West Coast named Eadweard Muybridge, going by the commercial name of Helios, had already pushed photography far in the opposite direction: not to soak up time into pictures, but to divide time with the quickest exposures then imaginable. In 1872, the tycoon Leland Stanford had commissioned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865219268
• ISBN13: 9783865219268
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 11.0" x 8.5"