ISBN10: 0226071731, ISBN13: 9780226071732, [publisher: University of Chicago Press] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.2
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0226071731, ISBN13: 9780226071732, [publisher: Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Frontispiece, xx, 1 leaf, 450 pp; 270 halftones; 65 line drawings. Original cloth, large square 8vo. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. 'Before reading Marta Braun's extraordinarily well documented and dazzlingly illustrated biography of nineteenth-century French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey, one could have easily hypothesized that E. J. Marey and Eadweard J. Muybridge were actually the same person' (Glenn Myrent, review for The French Review, Vol. 68, No. 5, April, 1995, pp. 899-901). 'Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. Picturing Time, the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists. Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound transformation in understanding and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Featuring 335 illustrations, Picturing Time includes many unpublished examples of Marey's chronophotographs and ...

ISBN10: 0226071731, ISBN13: 9780226071732, [publisher: University Of Chicago Press] Hardcover First edition. Complete overview of the work of the French inventor best known for his photographic motion studies that led the way to cinematography. Briefly inscribed by the author on half-title page. Single 1cm tear to rear upper edge of dust-jacket and a light vertical crease to front flap. Otherwise a fine hardcover copy with no further marks and no foxing or noticeable fading to inside pages. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 450 pages. s131
[Toronto, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1992]