Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830 1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama including a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Braun s revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge s life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman.
In the 1870s, Muybridge s...
Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830 1904) was a pioneering photographer during his l...