RIVER OF SHADOWSFORMAL PRESENTATION OF CONCEPTMATTHEW MANOS

RIVER OF SHADOWS - ANNOTATIONS

01. The first photograph does not exist

02. These photos are the bridge to a new art that would

transform the world

03. ”It was as though he had grasped time itself, made

it stand still and then made it run again, over and over.”

04. Time at his command

05. Other projects also about time - the seasons and

nature

06. The difference between the time a camera sees and

tiime an eye sees

07. “Annihilating time and space”

08. Approved upon the zoetrope - zoopraxiscope

09. Time lost or spent or not yet had was what people

desired and fed upon in the films that became a colle-

tive dreamworld inhabited by multitudes

10. Term of time - electrifying

11. “In the spring of 1872, a man photographed a

horse”

12. Changes surname twice and first name as well -

transitions, transformation, time and motion

13. Muybridge’s move to California - it is said that it

is this move that enabled his success - movement of

place over time

14. “Nature itself was the limit of speed.” - the world Muy-

bridge was born into.

15. Muybridge - Darwin stance - photographs humans as

“animals in motion”

16. Before photography the past only existed in memory -

memory beyond one’s own experience = stories - it would

be interesting to have a site describe the book from the

perspectives of those who have read it and have no book in

front of them.

17. A book and online component used to represent the

slow time Muybridge was impatiently born into. - this would

allow the reader to appreciate his contributions while also

gaining an interest in the history of technology.

18. the novel has a lot of comparisons to “now” and then”

MUYBRIDGE WAS BORN INTO A TIME THAT WAS TOO SLOW

FOR HIM. THIS IS THE REASON FOR HIS RE-INVENTION OF

IT WHICH FIRST STARTED WITH THE RE-INVENTION OF HIM-

SELF BY MEANS OF MOTION.

INSPIRATION #1 TIME AS PROCESS & CHANGE

INSPIRATION #2 TIME “NOW” VS. TIME “THEN”

INSPIRATION #3 TIME AS MATTER/MATERIAL

Materials effected

by time and nature

as well as process

and trial & error.

ORIGINAL CONCEPT

My print edition of “River of Shadows” will serve as a

representaion of time as matter. The book will, in par-

ticular, focus on the time that Muybridge was born into,

a time I am calling “impatient time.” One quote that

stood out to me while reading was in reference to the

time Muybridge was born into: “Nature itself was the

limit of speed.” Before Muybridge, his colleagues, and

his peers the world had a different perception of time

and its relationship with ourselves and motion. I want

to create a book that represents this “time” Muybridge

was born into, and therefore highlight his contriubtions

to our every-day lives. I want to (through the craft of

this book) make the process and the struggle to create

these images, or stills of time, apparent by using mate-

rials that are both resourceful, handmade, and fragile.

TOO BROAD

FINAL CONCEPT

I want to create a book that serves as a portrait of the

photographer and the time he was born into and that

he changed.

Photographer:

mysterious, multi-layered, determined/inventive

Time / Era:

“America on the threshold of modernity,” “Nature itself

was the limit of speed.”

Translation into physical book:

mysterious = key, compartments

multi-layered = multiple books/ multiple varying sec-

tions for different information

edge of modernity = juxtaposition of old and new (ma-

terials vs. graphic technique)

nature = use of natural materials effected by / from

nature

determined = laborious methods - letterpress, photo-

graphic prints, etc.

The book will be presented in a black, locked, box. The

box will be handbuilt complete with hinges, a lock, and

laser etched dutch typography. Upon opening the book

with the provided etched key, the user will be greeted

with a beautifully designed book containing the same

typography as the etched wooden box. The inside will

contain only one book, but the book itself wil have vari-

ous parts that will be clearly differentiated through the

use of materials.

The book will be split up into 5 parts: text part1 (130

pages), photographs, text part 2 (130 pages), flipbooks,

chronology/index. These five sections will be split up by

means of materials as well as stock of paper.

The design will represent this time that Muybridge was

brought into as well as his effects of turning bringing

America to the “verge of modernity” by juxtaposing

modernist design techniques with the presentation of

century old content and production.

The book will be bound with the spine exposed.

ONLINE EDITION

Not quite sure

The website will ocntinue this idea of creating an envi-

ronment and experience that is a portrait of Muybridge

in this time that he was born into and that he changed.

CONTENT TYPOLOGY

Front Matter-praise

-header

-body

-publisher

-title

-subtitle

-body

-title page

-title

-sub-header

-author name

-publisher

-copyright info

-contents

-header

-sections

-page numbers

Book-section start

-section name

-section subtitle

-general

-footnotes

-page numbers

-photo captions

-body

-section subname

-book subname

-section inner-headers

End Matter-headers

-subheaders

-body

-sub-sub headers

-page numbers

-section subname

-title subname