She is also a contributor to the exhibition catalog for “Helios: Eadweard Muybridge and a Time of Change.”Īs part of our feature on Muybridge, Art Beat talked to Solnit about uncovering the seams of reality and time in photography, the economy of images we find on the internet today, image bombardment in advertising, and why we still love to take and show each other photos after all these years.Ī recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Solnit is also the author of “Wanderlust: A History of Walking” and “A Field Guide to Getting Lost.”ĪRT BEAT: In your essay for the Corcoran show, “Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change,” you call the world in Muybridge’s photographs “all but discomposed.” Can you explain what you meant by that? Rebecca Solnit is the author of “River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West,” which won the 2003 National Book Award for Criticism.
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