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Availability:In StockContributor:Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher (Translator), Rob Aspinall (Translator)Publish date:2025-04-29Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Drawn & QuarterlyISBN-13:9781770467729ISBN-10:1770467726UPC:9781770467729Book Category:Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:NonfictionBook Topic:Biography & MemoirSize:8.60 x 6.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC2DTBHY76

How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye?

Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomesentangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford's delusions of grandeur. Tasked withproving Stanford's belief that a horse's hooves do not touch the ground while galloping atfull speed, Muybridge gets to work with his camera. In doing so, he inadvertently createsone of the single most important technological advancements of our age--the invention oftime-lapse photography and the mechanical ability to capture motion.

Critically-acclaimed cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Hostage) returns with anotherengrossing foray into nonfiction: a biography about Eadweard Muydbridge, the man whomade pictures move. Despite career breakthrough after career breakthrough, Muybridgewould only be hampered by betrayal, intrigue, and tragedy. Delisle's keen eye for detailsthat often go unnoticed in search of a broader emotional truth brings this historical figureand those around him to life through an uncompromising lens.

Translated from the French by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall, Muybridge turns a spotlighton what lives in the shadow of an individual's ambition for greatness, and proves thatEadweard Muybridge deserves to be far more than just another historical footnote.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Drawn & QuarterlyISBN-13:9781770467729ISBN-10:1770467726UPC:9781770467729Book Category:Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:NonfictionBook Topic:Biography & MemoirSize:8.60 x 6.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC2DTBHY76
Born in Qu?bec City, Canada, in 1966, Guy Delisle now lives in the south of France with his wife and two children. Delisle spent ten years working in animation, which allowed him to learn about movement and drawing. He is best known for his travelogues about life in faraway countries: Burma Chronicles, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Pyongyang, and Shenzhen. He has since expanded his oeuvre by telling a Doctors Without Borders acquaintance's story as a nail-biting thriller (Hostage) and revisiting his teen years and first summer job (Factory Summers).
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

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