River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670031764 (0670031763)
Publish date: January 27th 2003
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Science,
Technology,
American,
Art,
Culture,
Film,
Photography
Not actually about this book (although the book is mentioned), but a good article by the author about "mansplaining."
A look at the cultural history of a pivotal period in American history: then entry of railroads into the west, and the beginning of the widespread use of photographs, among other things. Lots of interesting info about that very original guy Muybridge, too; he was atypical enough, and also enough a p...
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