{"product_id":"muybridge-9783836595452","title":"Muybridge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnglish photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames—proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the next three decades, Muybridge continued his quest to fully catalogue many aspects of human and animal movement, shooting hundreds of horses and other animals, as well as nude or draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending a staircase (the latter study inspired Marcel Duchamp's famous 1912 painting).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuybridge\u003c\/em\u003e traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. Many plates of Muybridge's groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eAnimal Locomotion\u003c\/em\u003e (1887) are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge's handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album, \u003cem\u003eThe Attitudes of Animals in Motion\u003c\/em\u003e (1881), is reproduced in large part. A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48353495417068,"sku":"9783836595452","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836595452-muybridge-1.jpg?v=1789359145","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/muybridge-9783836595452","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}