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Motion Studies Rebecca Solnit Bloomsbury, (pounds) 8.99 What a man was Eadweard Muybridge. Who, you mutter? Perhaps you've seen the black-and-white footage; a horse with rider, moving jerkily along. In 1873 Muybridge invented high-speed photography capturing images and showing life in a way that had never been seen before. "Muybridge was a doorway, a pivot between that old world and ours, and to follow him is to follow the choices that got us here," notes Solnit. Muybridge's life was heading for the interes-ting but uneventful before this. Born in Kingston Upon Thames, England in 1830, he found some success in San Francisco, first as a bookseller and then as one of the pioneers of photography, documenting the landscapes of Yosemite in particular. But it was when railroad baron Leland Stanford needed to know how horses trotted - was there always one foot on the ground or did they become airborne - that Muybridge came into his technological own. His later suing of Stanford is but an appetiser for the murder of his wife's lover. Seldom does a relatively unknown life contain so much that one wonders how one never knew more before.
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