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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Byron, 1967- author, photographer.

Brady, Scott (Geographer), author.

Contributor:

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Muybridge, Eadweard.

Wolfe, Byron, 1967-.

Wolfe, Byron.

Landscape photography--Central America.

Landscape photography.

Pacific Coast (Central America)--Pictorial works.

Pacific Coast (Central America).

Central America--Pictorial works.

Central America.

Central America--Pacific Coast.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 32 cm + 1 pamphlet (36 unnumbered pages ; 25 x 29 cm) glued to frontispiece pastedown

Other Title:

Phantom skies and shifting ground

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781942185147

1942185146

OCLC:

1007215792