Definitive selection of 3,919 photographs, plus author's observations on animals' movements. Incredible true-action shots cover 34 different animals and birds in 132 characteristic motions. Horses, goats, cats, gnus, eagles, gazelles, sloths, camels, many others shown walking, running, flying, leaping, more.

In the archive room in the basement of the library.

A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology

“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York Times

Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in...

Crossing the country with his camera in the late nineteenth century, San Francisco photographer Edward Muybridge meets the emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes, who becomes his life's focus until a corrupt robber baron, interested in Muybridge's talent for technology, comes between them.

"The photography of Eadweard Muybridge is immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer." "In his work, we see some of the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants, and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their use somewhere in today's...