The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge -- Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer

by Brian Clegg

Book Overview

The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography.

His work is iconic: the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309101123
• ISBN13: 9780309101127
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"