Phantom skies & shifting ground : landscape, culture, and rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge's Illustrations of Central America / by Byron Wolfe & Scott Brady
Muybridge, Eadweard 1830-1904 Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico, the Isthmus of Panama, Guatemala, and the cultivation and shipment of coffee Selections Search this
193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 32 cm + 1 pamphlet (36 unnumbered pages : facsimiles ; 25 x 29 cm) glued to front pastedown
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Repeat photography
Photobooks
Place:
Central America
Pacific Coast (Central America)
Date:
2017
Notes:
Includes facsimile reproduction of portions of: The Pacific Coast of Central America and Mexico, the Isthmus of Panama, Guatemala, and the cultivation and shipment of coffee / illustrated by Muybridge. San Francisco, 1876.
AAPG copy 39088019655687 signed by author.
AAPG copy 39088019655687 gift of Byron Wolfe.
Summary:
In 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife's lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panamá. Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (11 are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. In 2007, photographer Byron Wolfe (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge Central American photograph. Then, with cultural geographer Scott Brady, he traveled to many of Muybridge's sites to rephotograph them. Through photographic collage, interpretive rephotography, illustrations and essays, this book examines an exceptionally rare series by Muybridge. Also included is a catalogue of every known Muybridge Central American picture.
