000			nam a22 4500
999			_c86863 _d86863
008			190704b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780142004104
082			_a778.53092 _bSol
100			_aSolnit, Rebecca
245			_aRiver of Shadows : _bEadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west
260			_aNew York _bPenguin Books _c2003
300			_axii; 306p. _bpb _c21.5x14 cm.
365			_b702.94
520			_aWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Men Explain Things to Me explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become such a center of technological and cultural innovation The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge—who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically—becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post–Civil War California led directly to the two industries—Hollywood and Silicon Valley—that have most powerfully defined contemporary society.
650			_aMuybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
650			_aCinematographes-United States-Biography
650			_aPhotographers-United States-Biography
650			_aChronophotogrphy-History
942			_cBK