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Berkeley Daily Planet - Mar 11, 2010
... beyond unbridged Yerba Buena island) and the famously haunting Eadweard Muybridge photo in the round from the top of the Mark Hopkins mansion, ...

The Moving Image at Hove Museum

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Creative Boom (blog) - Feb 19, 2010
Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century photographer who was the first to develop photographic sequences of moving objects. Placing studies in his famous ...

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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

by: Rebecca Solnit
Impeccable research, insightful connections and fluidity of writing make Rebecca Solnit's "River of Shadows" one of the best biographies/ cultural history narratives I have read. Eadweard Muybridge's importance in the early stages of photography & cinema is clearly articulated. His personal life and the history of "the West" are intertwined in illuminating fashion. This book is highly recommended.
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Complete Locomotion Photographs

by: Hans-Christian Adam
This title discusses about the grandfather of the moving image. English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by providing photographic proof that when galloping, a horse momentarily lifts all of its legs off of the ground. Muybridge accomplished this feat by inventing a complex system of shutter releases that allowed him to capture freeze frames of the horse's gallop - proving conclusively, for the first time, that the horse does indeed lift all of its hooves in the air for a fraction of a second.
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Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

by: Philip Brookman, Marta Braun, Cory Keller
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 Muybridge to photograph his horse, Occident, to determine whether it ever lifted all four hooves off the ground at once.
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The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge - Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer

by: Brian Clegg
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, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their derivate use somewhere in today's media.
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