$100,000 prize for sports artist Aug 1, 2008
"I asked Christopher, who's one of my oldest friends - we met at an athletics club when we were nine. He was the perfect combination of best friend, runner and professional actor. So he got on the treadmill ... we had six goes and, of course, the last was the one." Crooks's work may concentrate on the finishing line, but it also takes a telescopic view of film in art and sport, particularly the motion-analysis of the 19th-century pioneers Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge and, indeed,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Men explain things to me Apr 16, 2008
They were actually about quite a few different things, the six or seven out by then, but I began to speak only of the most recent on that summer day in 2003, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, my book on the annihilation of time and space and the industrialization of everyday life. He cut me off soon after I mentioned Muybridge. (Asia Times Online)
Alberta Theatre Projects unveils Mar 19, 2008
White will close his season with a touring production of another of Kerr's plays called Studies in Motion: The Haunting of Eadweard Muybridge. Ironically, Theatre Calgary is also producing Kerr's Skydive. (Jam! Showbiz)
Modern design through the view finders Feb 24, 2008
Perhaps, too, there is a reminiscence of the stop-motion serial images of Eadweard Muybridge and other early photographers. And for this viewer the tracery of black lines over rich colors can't help evoking the stained glass window of a cathedral. (Boston Globe)
First Exhibitions of 2008 at the Addison Gallery Range from Mid-Century Architecture to New England Landscapes Jan 17, 2008
Opened in 1931, the Gallery has one of the most important collections of American art in the country that includes more than 16,000 works by prominent American artists such as George Bellows, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia OKeeffe and Jackson Pollock, as well as photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and many more. The Addison Gallery, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, offers a continually rotating series of exhibitions... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Fog City Mavericks' shines spotlight on directors Sep 24, 2007
" Separated by a century, three pillars of movie history might seem unrelated.In the 1970s, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola made films about spacemen and mobsters. In the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge made films of a horse running.All three are at the core of "Fog City Mavericks," a new documentary. It turns out they have a lot in common.They are bearded guys from San Francisco who transformed filmmaking. And all three had life-changing crises."It set me off in a different direction," Lucas... (Florida Today)
Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others Jul 30, 2007
Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others - Cantor Arts Center Stanford University - absolutearts ... "Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others" 2007-07-25 until 2007-10-28 Stanford, CA, USA United States of America ... The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the exhibition Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Revealing landscapes and the poetry of motion Jul 19, 2007
Stop-action images The motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) and Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton (1903-1990) are legendary. Muybridge used multiple cameras to prove that a horse lifted all four feet off the ground in mid-gallop, among other things. (Boston Globe)
Cry of the West -- Don't fence me in Jun 25, 2007
" Barbed wire didn't stop the radioactive fallout that reached New England, or the protesters from around the globe. This non-place serves as an apt introduction, as Solnit presses us to question borders and dichotomies and to think in terms of systems rather than discrete places and objects. In the first section, she returns with new insight to themes she has treated since her 1994 "Savage Dreams": the myth of the American West as pristine wilderness -- a place apart from civilization, until it... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Early Film's Influence On Art May 14, 2007
A series of still shots photographed and animated by Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by railroad tycoon Leland Stanford to help him figure out how to choose good racing horses. "Muybridge then began attacking all of the horse painters who had ever lived, saying, OK, you've gotten it all wrong, this is not the pose of legs in this particular trot or this gallop, and you have imposed your own imperfect human eye on something that the camera can see much better," she said. (CBS News)
The wonder years Apr 21, 2007
Yet the movies only marked the culmination of a decades-long series of developments that included dioramas and flip books (the latter was patented as recently as 1868), such rudimentary devices for projecting motion as the zoetrope and thaumatrope , and the photographic motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey. For the first time, duration entered visual representation. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Sol LeWitt, a Modern Master, Left a Vibrant Mark on the County Apr 13, 2007
Mr. Carretta described Mr. LeWitt as a "pretty down-to-earth, regular guy. You would not know if you met him his stature in the art world. When we did go to lunch, he usually talked about his kids. He was a regular guy." Mr. Doyle met Mr. LeWitt in the early 1960s when Mr. LeWitt was working on his acclaimed "Muybridge Series," works that were named after the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who studied sequence and motion. He recalled the work schedule the young artist, who then worked... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
A dogged imagination Apr 12, 2007
Sequences of shots of dogs' legs pay homage to the stop-action photography of Eadweard Muybridge. A few of the dog pictures have a powerful emotional resonance. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
LeWitt also took a keen interest in the sequential studies of animal motion made by the English-born California photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). But Minimalism was a watershed partly because it represented something entirely new: It was the first art movement of international significance forged exclusively by American-born artists. (Los Angeles Times)
Landscape And Dreamscape Mar 22, 2007
From early panoramic vistas by Eadweard Muybridge and Robert Vance to the rapturous nature imagery of Adams and Edward Weston to contemporary artist Richard Misrach's Death Valley meditations and Catherine Opie's swooping freeway ramps, the West is perpetually reinvented, re-examined and remade through the photographer's lens. Two current shows register the range and complexity of photography in the West. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Future is ours: Report looks back at the years leading to 2027 Jan 8, 2007
Rebecca Solnit is the author of "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" and "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West." A longer version of this piece is available at. Contact us at. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Yosemite' Art of an American Icon Oct 12, 2006
Early photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge lugged their primitive equipment up steep trails with teams of mules, creating what were among the first landscapes in the medium. As these images got back to the East Coast, where they were so outside the realm of people's experience that they seemed almost a figment of the imagination, Yosemite soon supplanted Niagara Falls as the country's most awesome natural wonder. (Los Angeles Times)
Museum shows rare photos of Yosemite's landscape Jul 17, 2006
The rare images are contact prints made between 1861 and 1880 from glass-plate negatives by famous photographers of the time, which include Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge and Charles Weed. The photographers used 18-by-22 inch "mammoth" format glass negatives to make images. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Of illegal immigration and bloodshed -- in 1846 Jun 26, 2006
" There is another monument of a sort to all these characters. Fremont and Vallejo are streets that never quite cross in the northeast of San Francisco. Larkin and O'Farrell streets run farther west, intersecting in the Tenderloin. De Haro Street runs across Potrero Hill, farther south in the city, named after relatives of the murdered twins. Berryessa is a man-made lake that arrived on the scene much later. Carson is a pass in the Sierra Nevada, a suburb in Los Angeles, a public school in Las... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Conflict and Art Jun 7, 2006
account access login. As society copes with conflicts ranging from the global to personal, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University examines how artists in many cultures and eras have interpreted the harsh realities of conflict through objects and images that are aesthetically satisfying. (AbsoluteArts.com)
'Splendor' Returns Jun 5, 2006
Photographic processes and inventions such as the stereograph and the snapshot - introduced with the development of the Kodak camera in 1888 - also get prominence, as do individual photographers such as Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, John Moran and Carleton Watkins. While none of the images have the startling majesty or crisp clarity of an Ansel Adams photograph, there are surprises. (CTNow.com)
Unscientific method: busting myths about research May 20, 2006
The film industry, he reminds, was born out of the curiosity of one man, Eadweard Muybridge, who wanted to know whether horses lifted all four feet off the ground when they trotted and developed the world's first sequence of motion pictures to find out. Barlow, now in a job in industry, wrote his book to challenge what he claims are 10 entrenched myths about Australian science and to dispel a widespread perception that Australia is failing to exploit its knowledge or create high-tech industries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Remake the world May 15, 2006
" Hopeless is one story, otherwise is another; go tell it on your mountain or internship or wherever you're headed, but never forget that you know how to dismantle stories, how to question and compare them and maybe sometimes how to reinvent them. This is vital, since your task as the young being cut loose at this moment of graduation from what we the old have to give is to reinvent the universe, the universe made out of stories, to change the stories, to tell them, to bury them and give birth... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Get the big picture before you take off May 14, 2006
They offer a brief history of filmmaking in San Francisco, which can trace its beginnings as far back as 1878 in Palo Alto, when industrialist Leland Stanford hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to shoot horses' hoofs in motion in settlement of a bet. This humble start led to a grand future. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
A giant undertaking May 7, 2006
"McPhee started photographing at age 12, with a 120mm camera her mother gave her. She says she's never had a 35mm camera. For the past two decades, she's used an old-fashioned Deardorff viewfinder camera, which requires a tripod and long exposure times. It gets extraordinary detail and depth but at the expense of speed and spontaneity.The Deardorff, McPhee says, ''is essentially a mahogany box. I love it, I love it. There are lighter cameras, but I'm committed to the object, though I have... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The vision thing Apr 24, 2006
San Diego Art Institute Kathryn Jacobi's "Unhatched 1" resembles a mysterious update of the late-19th-century motion studies by photographer Eadweard Muybridge. A large exhibition featuring its MFA students, The Elephant vs. the Termite, which is on view in the campus' University Art Gallery through Thursday, touts its blend of traditional art practices and new technologies. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Art In A Second Apr 13, 2006
In the 1870s, the English-born American photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a battery of cameras with fast shutter speeds to capture the action of a galloping horse. Edgerton's innovation came in the early 1930s with the development of the stroboscope. (CTNow.com)
Success hurts -- at least where filmmaker, ex-sex addict Caveh Zahedi is concerned Apr 4, 2006
Zahedi moved on to Paris, where he tried to woo backers, including the French government, for films about poets Arthur Rimbaud and Stephen Mallarme and photographer Eadweard Muybridge. All declined. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5 Jan 13, 2006
Her books include "Wanderlust: A History of Walking," "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" and "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West," which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and California Book Award. Her latest book is "A Field Guide to Getting Lost." * Susan Straight -- A longtime essay contributor to Los Angeles Times Magazine, Straight has written five novels including "Highwire Moon," which won a California Book Award and was a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
