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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild Westby: Rebecca Solnit  List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 778.53 EAN: 9780142004104 ISBN: 0142004103 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 02, 2004 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Release Date: March 02, 2004 Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Technology and CultureSolnit's RIVER OF SHADOWS is an entrance not only into the 19th century, but also a precursor of the 20th century and the advent of technology. She tells the story of Eadweard Muybridge and the invention of the moving picture. The value of this exceptional book, however, is the relationship presented between technology and culture, and the sweeping cultural changes that resulted through the annihiliation of space. It was as if the world had shrunk, or better yet, the old world had died. Read More Rating: - A Work of ArtSolnit's book is not simply a biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. It is also a fascinating cultural history of California in the nineteenth century, and the resonance that this lost world has for our own time. Gracefully interweaving the tragic history of Indian extermination with the triumphs of industrial expansion (specifically the railroad), and the rapid progression from "instantaneous photography" to the cinema itself, Solnit makes a compelling case for viewing Muybridge, his patron ... Read More Rating: - Stunning writingRebecca Solnit is an amazing writer. She brings to the surface all the hidden currents of the Muybridge story in a narrative that is at once informative and moving. This book constantly surprised and delighted me with its deep insights and fascinating details. Not only is it well researched, but the results of the research are germane to the story and are all neatly brought together. It was a pleasure to discover that fine writing like this still exists. I can't wait to read her other books now that I ... Read More Rating: - This is a marvellous bookThis is a splendid book, intelligent,stimulating, the best kind of cultural history. It illuminates the origins of photography, cinema, and the construction of the American west. Rating: - Solnit Takes on the West, Photography and Doesn't DisappointMuybridge was an interesting character aside from his pioneering landscape photography and motion studies. Rebecca Solnit is an interesting character aside from her accessibility and easy readable style. She is uncommonly skilled in describing her subject and what he did as well as explaining the historical context and landscape into which Muybridge inserted himself. Gold rush California was a wild and raw landscape, filled with the last gasps of the American frontier as the Sierra was trampled ... Read More 
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