Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880

Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880

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Publisher's Synopsis

These photographs from the CCA collection and other private and public collections document one of the supreme technical and conceptual achievements in the history of architectural photography.;On July 14, 1877, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) announced in the "San Francisco Chronicle" the publication of a set of photographs, "Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill". It was available in two formats: as a set of albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards, and as an album of 11 albumen prints. Approximately one year later, Muybridge rephotographed the view, this time using a mammoth-plate camera. The result, a 360-degree panorama measuring more than 17 feet in length, was published as an album, comprising 13 albumen prints.;This book documents Muybridge's panoramas of a now vanished San Francisco, and also discusses the antecedents of his work, thereby placing it within its historical context.

Book information

ISBN: 9780262082204
Publisher: Centre Canadien d'Architecture
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 779.479461
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 135 , [6] of plates
Weight: 454g
Height: 308mm
Width: 252mm
Spine width: 25mm