POUR UNE FRACTION DE SECOND
FOR A FRACTION OF A SECOND:The Eventful Life of Eadward Muybridge
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Publishing Company:
SYLVAIN COISSARD AGENCY/SCOUT
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Imprint:
SHAMPOOING
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Format:
ONE SHOT
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Creator(s):
GUY DELISLE
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Number of Pages:
208
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Cover price:
€ 25.00
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Publication Date:
October 2024
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Age:
ADULT
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
NON-FICTION
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Key words:
BIOGRAPHY,
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Summary:
A biopic about Eadweard Muybridge, little-known character who met the greatest inventors and painters of his time: Edison, Tesla, Rodin, Degas…
A historical, novelistic panorama of the invention of photography, the decline of painting and the beginning of cinema
A story in one volume, by the best-selling and multi-awarded author of Burma Chronicles, Hostage, Jerusalem, Pyongyang, Factory Summers
We are in California, shortly after the gold rush. Among the many emigrants attracted to this El Dorado, a young Englishman becomes passionate about a technical process which was in its infancy: photography. He will quickly become one of the most famous photographers of his time. Helped by the richest man in the US, he achieves a hitherto unprecedented feat: capturing on film the course of a galloping horse. By succeeding in taming the movement, Eadweard Muybridge becomes the first man to stop time; also, first man to project a film, well before Edison and the Lumière brothers… and first man found not guilty after killing his wife’s lover at point blank range! Muybridge is the very first pioneer of cinema, unjustly forgotten by history.
