A wonderfully wide-ranging article on Delisle’s career by Phil Hoad appeared in the Guardian in April this year, centering around his new book from Drawn & Quarterly Eadweard Muybridge, the “pioneer of the moving image”.
From the article:
The new comic book from the revered Quebecois graphic novelist vividly relates the extraordinary life story of Muybridge. It’s a rollicking ride, told in Delisle’s typically light-footed style: Muybridge gatecrashes the early wet-plate photography boom in San Francisco, suffers a near fatal stagecoach accident, fuels America’s desire for epic visions of itself via his pioneering landscape photos, before murdering his wife’s lover (an incident depicted by Delisle in a motion-study-style sequence that’s arresting in every sense). Then Muybridge finally ushers photography into the new era, projecting his photos in sequence so their subjects appear to move, using his niftily titled “zoopraxiscope”, which prefigured the film projector.
Read it in-depth here!
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