false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167920014m/28054.jpg 28054 2 The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge—who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically—becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries—Hollywood and Silicon Valley—that have most powerfully defined contemporary society. 28645 2003 River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West total:145|5:54|4:50|3:36|2:4|1:1| 145 587 268 27 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 19 10:51:02 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:07:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 11:32:44 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:19:03 -0800 2009 Out west, the complex responses to industrialization and its transformation of time and space include things never dealt with by the impressionist painters and avant-garde poets usually talked of as modernist, include Indian wars and identity shifts, a landscape being claimed and renamed, photograph...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 21:25:25 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 00:45:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 17 10:32:50 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 07:32:38 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 07:32:25 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 21:12:11 -0700 2007
What I would call an impressionist ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 02:48:03 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 02:58:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 09:07:30 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 09:09:02 -0800 2009 great storytelling, great history. interesting setting she creates to discuss Muybridge and Stanford, but also the times in which they were doing what they were doing. ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:34:01 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 08:56:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 13:08:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 13:10:16 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 19 13:57:01 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 13:57:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 13:12:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:34:31 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 13:12:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 26 16:23:16 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 17:38:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 18 22:35:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 22:38:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:48:27 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 06:57:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 15:39:07 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 15:39:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 14 11:27:18 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 27 09:51:12 -0700 2007 Wed May 14 11:27:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 14 10:42:33 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 12:29:36 -0700 2007
A shame. Because there was probably an intere...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 23:28:44 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 23:31:11 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 14 15:58:37 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 29 15:02:30 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 15:14:34 -0700 2007
SF song: "Who were you back in the States?"

Head injury - op. lobe // creativity, irritability?

landscape photos as expansionist trope; "naturalize" conquest

M. foregrounds debris in landscape

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