Muybridge and Mobility

"One of the most important contributions to the history of photography, Eadweard Muybridge’s series of motion studies is standard viewing for anyone interested in the field. Muybridge and Mobility presents fresh perspectives on this iconic series and challenges readers to think of it in new ways."—Steven Hoelscher, Professor of American Studies and Geography, University of Texas at Austin

"Muybridge and Mobility offers fresh insight into this famous photographer. Tim Cresswell and John Ott mine Muybridge’s photographs for overlooked phenomena of the Gilded Age: the integration of Black athletes into professional sports and the initiation of a scientific culture of surveillance."—Wendy Jean Katz, author of Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press

List of contents

Contents

Introduction
Anthony W. Lee

Visualizing Mobility
Tim Cresswell

Race and Mobility
John Ott

Notes
Index

About the author

Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent books are Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place and a volume of poetry called Plastiglomerate.

John Ott is Professor of Art History at James Madison University and author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California. His current book project is Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration, 1931–1954.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Cresswell, Tim Ott Cresswell, John Ott, John William Ott, Ott John
• Assisted by: Anthony W. Lee (Introduction), Lee Anthony W. (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780520382428
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38242-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Defining Moments in Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, ART / History / General, HISTORY / World, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, History of Art, Individual photographers, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies