Barber, Stephen — Muybridge: The Eye in Motion

[Washington, DC] / [Chicago], Solar Books / Distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2012. Hardcover. Black boards with photo illustration and white and yellow lettering; 200 pp.; richly illustrated. Much of contemporary visual culture can be traced directly to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and film pioneer. His work is powered by an extreme obsessionality, excess and ordinariness that enabled him to negate all preconceptions and to re-conceptualize the dynamics of corporeal and urban forms. He created a moving-image projector, the Zoopraxiscope, for his sequences of human and animal movement, thus construction the first identifiably cinematic space for his images' projection to spectators-- Edited summary from back cover. Good+ (Ex art library, indicated only by a sticker on rear endpaper; boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is in excellent condition.) .