Graphic Novel Biography of Eadweard Muybridge
The life and work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge is the subject of a new graphic novel called Muybridge by Guy Delisle.
Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomes entangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford’s delusions of grandeur. Tasked with proving Stanford’s belief that a horse’s hooves do not touch the ground while galloping at full speed, Muybridge gets to work with his camera. In doing so, he inadvertently creates one of the single most important technological advancements of our age—the invention of time-lapse photography and the mechanical ability to capture motion.
You can find Muybridge at Drawn & Quarterly, Amazon, or Bookshop.
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Can vouch; it’s great.
Big fan of anything Guy Delisle does. All his books are great.
That's going right on to my list of books to buy and stack up on the end table and guiltily look at for several months until I sheepishly move them into the bookshelf in the other room where I won't have to see them as often and feel as bad.
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