River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridg...

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Rebecca Solnit. recently made known York: Viking, 2002. 306 pp $2595
"This portrait of a man, a place, a time, a technology, an art and various other matters that escape encapsulation shines on nearly each page with rigor and gusto and is consistently a delight to read.... She analyzes his photographs if it were not that has not delivered only a