Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years, 1872-1882 [*SIGNED* by Adolph Zukor]

[Palo Alto CA]: Department of Art, Stanford University. Very Good+. (c.1972). First Edition. Softcover. (large-format oblong softcover) [minor wear to extremities, light handling wear, a touch of foxing/staining to page edges; includes printed sheet of additions and corrections]. (Stanford Art Book 14) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles) This copy has a tipped-in sheet preceding the title page, containing a brief tribute by Arthur Knight "honoring the centennial of Eadweard Muybridge's achievements [and also] the centennial of Adolph Zukor's birth," and bearing Zukor's very shaky SIGNATURE just above his printed name; this copy is also hand-numbered "No. 61" at the top of the copyright page. An exhibition catalogue presenting a terrific survey of Muybridge's work during the period when he was making his famous photographic recordings of animals and humans in motion, under the sponsorship of businessman and former California Governor Leland Stanford. Introduction by Anita Ventura Mozley, the Stanford University Museum of Art's Photography Curator, followed by: a biographical essay by Robert Bartlett Haas; "Catalogue and Notes on the Work"; "Marey, Muybridge and Meissonier: The Study of Movement in Science and Art," by Françoise Forster-Hahn; Documents; Muybridge Bibliography. The signature of Adolph Zukor, the co-founder of Paramount Pictures, who was being widely feted at the time on his 100th birthday (he lived to 103), provides a nice linkage between the early motion picture industry and one of the most important photographic achievements of the pre-cinema era. .