The Man Who Stopped Time

By: Brian Clegg

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Synopsis: Brian Clegg tells the extraordinary story of the pioneer of photography, eccentric Victorian inventor Eadweard Muybridge. If most of us have seen Muybridge's distinctive stop-motion photographs, all of us have seen the fruit of his extraordinary technological innovation: today's cinema and television. But it is his personal life that possesses all the ingredients of a classic non-fiction best-seller: a passionately driven man struggling against the odds; dire treachery and shocking betrayal; a cast of larger-than-life characters set against a backdrop of San Francisco and the Far West in its most turbulent and dangerous era; a profusion of scientific and artistic advances and discoveries, one hotly following on another; the nervous intensity of two spectacular courtroom dramas (one pitting Muybridge against the richest man in the land and staring ruin in the face, the other sees him fighting for his life). And for the opening act, a foul murder on a dark and stormy night.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 265 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780750948623
Publisher:: Sutton Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/01/17
Copyrighted By:: Brian Clegg
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs
Submitted By:: Kevin Schwarte
Proofread By:: Beverly Cory
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.