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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
By Ball, Edward
- ISBN
- 9780385525756 9780385535496
- Publisher
- Doubleday
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Reviewed on March 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
National Book Award winner Ball's (Slaves in the Family) narrative tells two stories about motion-studies photographer Edward Muybridge: his role in an 1874 murder and his work in creating moving pictures. This wonderfully illustrated and well-researched book takes readers on a journey from the photographer's beginnings in England (he was then known as Ted Muggeridge) to his rise to fame once he exhibited moving pictures for ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
