Book ID: CBB000430273

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003)

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Solnit, Rebecca (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: 305 pp., illus.
Language: English

Description Muybridge “becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life.” (from publisher)


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Gillespie, Sarah
Gruber, John E.
Sara Hackenberg
Brian Hochman
Parak, Gisela
Jacobson, Brian R.
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Railroad History
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
History of Psychiatry
History of Photography
Environmental History
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of Minnesota Press
Transcript
Routledge
Mountain Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Photography
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Daguerreotype
Technology
Technology and race
Technology and art
People
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Jackson, William Henry
Méliès, George
Stanford, Leland
Muybridge, Eadweard
Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume Benjamin
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
France
England
Nevada (U.S.)
Appalachian region (North America)
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
American Vitagraph Company
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Gaumont
Bellevue Hospital
Edison Manufacturing Company
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