Muybridge — Guy Delisle

How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye?

Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomes
entangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford's delusions of grandeur. Tasked with
proving Stanford's belief that a horse's hooves do not touch the ground while galloping at
full speed, Muybridge gets to work with his camera. In doing so, he inadvertently creates
one of the single most important technological advancements of our age -- the invention of
time-lapse photography and the mechanical ability to capture motion.


Critically-acclaimed cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Hostage) returns with another
engrossing foray into nonfiction: a biography about Eadweard Muydbridge, the man who
made pictures move. Despite career breakthrough after career breakthrough, Muybridge
would only be hampered by betrayal, intrigue, and tragedy. Delisle's keen eye for details
that often go unnoticed in search of a broader emotional truth brings this historical figure
and those around him to life through an uncompromising lens.


Translated from the French by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall, Muybridge turns a spotlight
on what lives in the shadow of an individual's ambition for greatness, and proves that
Eadweard Muybridge deserves to be far more than just another historical footnote.