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Published
Granta, August 2025
ISBN
9781803511672
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

River of Shadows Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

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In 1872, Eadward Muybridge - a British photographer, who had landed in California during the Gold Rush - captured images of high-speed movement. These photographs would go on to lay the foundations for motion pictures, changing the west coast of America, and the world, forever.

River of Shadows is both a bold and original biography of a true pioneer - his trailblazing work, and his complicated life - and a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. Drawing lines from Muybridge's invention to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Rebecca Solnit explores how this remarkable breakthrough has shaped the world today.

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