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Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's illustrations of Central America

Title: Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's illustrations of Central America / by Byron Wolfe & Scott Brady.
Author: Wolfe, Byron, 1967-
Publication: Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books ; Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [2017]

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193 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 x 32 cm +

Summary

In 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panamá. Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (11 are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. In 2007, photographer Byron Wolfe (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge Central American photograph. Then, with cultural geographer Scott Brady, he traveled to many of Muybridge's sites to rephotograph them. Through photographic collage, interpretive rephotography, illustrations and essays, this book examines an exceptionally rare series by Muybridge. Also included is a catalogue of every known Muybridge Central American picture.

Alternative Title

Phantom skies and shifting ground

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQG 17-1258

ISBN

9781942185147
1942185146

OCLC

1007215792

Author

Wolfe, Byron, 1967- author, photographer.

Title

Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's illustrations of Central America / by Byron Wolfe & Scott Brady.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books ; Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Brady, Scott, author.

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Research Call Number

JQG 17-1258

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