Eadweard Muybridge

At a time when technology seems to be all about getting more people to see more images more quickly and clearly than ever before, Jennifer Pastor’s “Endless Arena” comes across as a wonderfully nutty throwback to a bygone era. The...

“I’ve always seen the world differently so I built a camera to share images the way I see them in my mind…growing up I had severe dyslexia and it was always hard to communicate – when I found photography I found my voice.” &#...

Re "Cinema's eye on 'Hobbit,'" Dec. 8 Converting to 48 frames per second overturns a long-standing industry standard of 24 frames per second, but that standard goes back further than the 80 years The Times cites. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge captured...

Howard Schatz's latest book, "At the Fights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing," resonates like a stinging jab. Over six years, Schatz interviewed and photographed 117 of the fight game's most prominent boxers, trainers, promoters and personalities,...

In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography Through Dec. 30, 2012. New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St., (860) 229-0257, nbmaa.org   For an institution that only began collecting photographs in 1999 — when the energetic...

Google knows something about the power in numbers, even in an art website. Google Art Project (www.googleartproject.com), which launched last year with virtual tours and digitized artworks from 17 museums, has added 134 new museums to its site,...

It’s questionable whether Rick Norsigian ever will achieve his goal of convincing the photography world that 65 old-fashioned glass-plate negatives of Yosemite and coastal California that he found at a Fresno garage sale 10 years ago constitute the “...

On a long sojourn in Iceland during the strange year that was 2008, I was talking to the writer Andri Magnason who took seriously my quip that after Barack Obama became president, I'd write nothing but haiku. Six months later, Obama's on the cusp of...

Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering time-lapse photography laid the foundation for Hollywood movies -- and his colorful life could have been one. Muybridge, a 19th century British American, made his name documenting animals and humans in motion. He also...

The superstars of early Yosemite photography come together at an exhibition of 50 photographs and related items through Oct. 28 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto. In "Yosemite's Structure and Textures," images of the valley...

The Osage Native American people have come into their own with the first-ever major exhibition to focus on their art and culture, opening this weekend at the St. Louis Art Museum. Native American art is too often thought of as primitive, a...

Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley has legendary status in California for being the most beautiful glacier-carved gash in the Sierra you'll never see. Its death by damming in the 1910s is said to have hastened the death of John Muir, who vigorously fought for...