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The Human Figure in Motion

Eadweard Muybridge Dover Publications Dover Publications
The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, tumbling, dressing, undressing, hopping on one foot, dancing, etc....
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Animals in Motion

Eadweard Muybridge Dover Publications Dover Publications
Definitive selection of 3,919 photographs, plus author's observations on animals' movements. Incredible true-action shots cover 34 different animals and birds in 132 characteristic motions. Horses, goats, cats, gnus, eagles, gazelles, sloths,...
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Muybridge's Animals in Motion CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)

Eadweard Muybridge Dover Publications Dover Publications
This amazing collection of 167 black-and-white photographic sequences captures the movements of 34 different animals as they run, fly, leap, and perform other characteristic actions. Essential for illustrating animals in art and animation,...
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Muybridge's Human Figure in Motion CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)

Eadweard Muybridge Dover Publications Dover Publications
This remarkable collection features 166 black-and-white, stopped-action photographic sequences by the forefather of motion pictures. Men and women, mostly nude, perform a variety of motions — running, jumping, lifting, and more. Essential for...
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The Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Classic Photographic Sequences

Eadweard Muybridge Dover Publications Dover Publications
Sixty of the best, most representative sequences from original 5,000 prints. Taken at speeds up to 1/6000th of a second, incredibly precise images show undraped male and female subjects against a ruled background, running, walking, leaping,...
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Motion Studies: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Rebecca Solnit Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In 1872, an Englishman photographed a running horse in California and succeeded for the first time in capturing an image of high-speed motion - the crucial breakthrough that eventually made movies possible. His patron, the philanthropist tycoon...
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture

Gordon Hendricks Dover Publications Dover Publications
Fascinating biography not only details Muybridge's groundbreaking photographic work, but also recounts his early life in England, his stormy relationship with Leland Stanford, his marriage to a young beauty, and his acquittal on murder charges...
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Rebecca Solnit Viking Adult Viking Adult
The world as we know it today began in California in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This extraordinary assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's brilliant new work of cultural history. Weaving together biography, history, and...
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Five Great American Photographers Boxed Set: Matthew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Lewis Baltz

Mary Panzer, Chris Johnson, Barbara Bullock-Wilson, Luc Sante, Paul Hill, Jeff Rian Phaidon Press Phaidon Press
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