Have you met Eadweard Muybridge? I loved this extraordinary man, I identified with him at times, David Stansfield makes him so alive, so human, so present... I savored the different levels of the text offered by the author. They complement themselves, nourish themselves, enrich themselves: the child aching for love; the grown-up lover, sincere and immature, murdered and murdering; the father of pure invention at the mercy of his brilliant, tyrannical sponsor; the genius embraced by both the artistic and the scientific community; a man both of and ahead of his time who meets the brilliant opportunist Edison, who is a friend of Nadar, of the obese and charming Prince Edward, of the Lumière brothers... This is a book about Talent, about the strange proximity of the artistic and the scientific world, about Love, about the World at the end of the 19th century and the ties that bind the cultural elites of America and Europe. This is a jewel. Cécile Moulard, Managing Director of Amazon.com France
About the Author: David Stansfield was born in England, but has spent most of his career as a television writer-producer in Canada and the United States. He is a Canadian citizen. With his wife, Denise Boiteau (also a Canadian citizen) David has written and produced some 400 television scripts (documentary, drama, comedy, animation) for TVOntario in Canada (both in English and French), the Public Broadcasting Service in the U.S., the Discovery Channel, NHK, Encyclopedia Britannica and Time-Life. He has also written half-a-dozen feature film screenplays, both originals and re-writes of other people's scripts. His TV productions have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won over fifty international film and television awards, including the selection of "The Middle East" series in the 1987 Academy Awards Best Educational Documentary category. Again, with Denise - David launched a French-as-a-Second Language TV network. He has also served as Media Delegate to the Gulf States in the Middle East for the Ontario Government. He has a First Class Honors B.A. in Modern Arabic Studies from Durham University and an M.A. in North African Literature (Arabic and French) from Cambridge University, including post-graduate study at the Sorbonne, the University of Toronto, where he did post-graduate work towards a Ph.D. with the late Marshall McLuhan.