River of ShadowsIn 1872, Eadward Muybridge, a British photographer who had landed in California during the Gold Rush, captured images of high speed movement. These photographs would go on to lay the foundations for motion pictures, changing the west coast of America, and the world, forever. River of Shadows is both a bold and original biography of a true pioneerhis trailblazing work, and his complicated lifeand a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity.