Hi all, Even though I'm hesitant in posting anything which refers to someone as a 'hero', unless it comes from a Superhero comic or plays with some form of irony - I will bypass my usual sense of unease just this once...
Wishing all well. marc ----------> Hero in his own movie. Tim Adams. The photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge’s meditations on the human body inspired the wildest imaginings of modern art. There is a celebrated photograph of Eadweard Muybridge, sitting on top of Contemplation Rock in Yosemite Park, California, in 1872. Muybridge, seen in silhouette with his Darwinian beard and backwoodsman's hat, is seemingly balanced on the edge of the world and looking down into the abyss. At the time, the photographer, now the subject of a compelling retrospective at Tate Britain, was on the verge of many things. He was about to invent the motion camera that made his name; he was also about to become a father and to discover both his fate and his vocation. But, for the time being, in Yosemite, Muybridge was doing what he did best: he was alone in the American wilderness, capturing on his patented photographic plates some of the most startling images ever published of the still New World: great redwoods and waterfalls, towering canyons and Native Americans clinging on to their homeland. Even in a state of chancers and eccentrics, Muybridge cut a striking figure. more... http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2010/09/muybridge-human-himself _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
