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Informationen zum Autor Marta Braun is Professor at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the author of Picturing Time: the Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1992) and in 1999 was co-winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award for the book Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (1998). Klappentext Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama--including a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Braun's revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman. In the 1870s, Muybridge's photography skills were enlisted by Leland Stanford, a racehorse breeder who later founded Stanford University, to prove the "unsupported motion controversy"--the theory that during a horse's stride, there was a moment when all four of its legs left the ground. The resulting collection of motion studies, as Braun explains, inspired Muybridge to take photography beyond landscapes to the realm of science. He went on to invent the zoopraxiscope, which captures movement too quick for the human eye to record. Most importantly, simulating motion through a series of stills, his pioneering use of sequence photography served as a forerunner to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s. This illuminating study examines a man whose influence has resounded through generations. In Eadweard Muybridge , Braun firmly establishes Muybridge's central contributions to the history of art, science, photography, and motion pictures. Zusammenfassung Marta Braun’s new biography of Eadweard Muybridge traces the sensational events of Muybridge’s life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman....
