false 2343964 0747562202 9780747562207 1 1 Motion Studies: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2343964.Motion_Studies_Eadweard_Muybridge_and_the_Technological_Wild_West 15811 Rebecca Solnit 1141 267 5 0 false Sun Nov 30 13:27:18 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 14 10:44:54 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 13:27:18 -0800 2008
I personally am not turned off by Solnit's sometimes flowery writing, but for anyone that is, this is more or less a flowery-writing safe zone. Incredibly well written and fully engaging, this biography of Muybridge brings together the invention of cinema with the proliferation of the railroads and the broader industrialization the US underwent in the latter half of the 19th century. Excellent!]]>