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River of Shadows (Paperback)

By: Rebecca Solnit (Author)

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"[A] brilliant essay on Muybridge and all he begat....RIVER OF SHADOWS is never less than deeply intelligent, and often very close to inspired....It belongs to that wondrous class of books -- like William Gass's ON BEING BLUE and Anne Carson's EROS THE BITTERSWEET -- in which an extraordinary mind seizes hold of an unexpected topic and renders it with such confidence, subtlety and grace that one finds it hard to remember what things looked like before the book appeared in the world."

"[I]t is hard to do justice to Solnit's far-reaching perspective....Her prose, terse and poetic, makes the book a pleasurably dizzying experience."

Publisher's note

A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover, tracing how his life reflected America in the nineteenth century.

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RIVER OF SHADOWS details the relationship between Eadweard Muybridge, the English-born photographer, and the state of California. Solnit examines Muybridge's experiments in film and argues for their importance in shaping the future of California as the seat of entertainment and technology. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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