Part 5 (2/2)
”The result of years of labor, and of large expenditure of money is at last laid before the public in this magnificent work, and the result is one of which Mr. Muybridge and the University of Pennsylvania may well be proud.”--_Evening Post_, New York.
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”A Lecture of an exceptionally interesting character.”--_Nottingham Guardian._
”There was a crowded attendance. Throughout the lecture Mr. Muybridge retained the close interest of his audience, and drew from them frequent and warm applause.”--_The Scotsman, Edinburgh._
”In all my long experience of London life I cannot recall a single instance where such warm tributes of admiration have been so unsparingly given by the greatest in the land, as in the case of Mr. Muybridge's lectures.”--OLIVE LOGAN in the _Morning Call, San Francisco_.
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”Mr. Muybridge ill.u.s.trated his lecture with a series of most valuable photographs, as well as that most fascinating of scientific toys--the ZOOPRAXISCOPE.”--_Magazine of Art, London._
”His labors attracted considerable attention in the world of science, while among artists and art critics a pretty controversy set in on the subject of the horse and his representation in art, which is likely to be revived and extended to other fields.... With Mr. Muybridge, 'Instantaneous Photography' has acquired a new significance, ...”--_Sat.u.r.day Review, London._
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”No parallel in the history of photography.”--_Photographic Times, New York._
”An exhibition which Raphael, Tintoretto, Michael Angelo, and other great masters of the Renaissance would have travelled all over Europe to see.”--_Evening Transcript, Boston._
”The audience was astonished and delighted at the marvellous demonstrations of Animal Locomotion that were brought before them.... The most remarkable feature of the British a.s.sociation meeting this year.”--_Newcastle Journal._
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”The effects of the ZOOPRAXISCOPE made up one of the most unique and instructive entertainments imaginable.”--_Boston Daily Globe._
”A more curious, entertaining, and suggestive exhibition it has not been our good fortune for a long time to attend.”--_Sacramento Record-Union._
”Everybody has heard something of the wonderful success which Mr. Muybridge has achieved; and in no country in the world is greater interest felt in his work, particularly as regards horses, than in England.”--_Engineering, London._
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”Simply marvels of the photographer's art.”--_Mercury_, Leeds.
”Not the least instructive part of the Lecture was the contrast between the positions of animals as shown in ancient and modern art, with their true positions as shown by themselves in the camera.”--_New York Tribune._
”Professor Marey invited to his residence a large number of the most eminent men in Europe for the purpose of meeting Mr. Muybridge, and witnessing an exhibition that should be placed before the whole Parisian public.”--_Le Globe, Paris._
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”The art critic and the connoisseur will find a study of Mr. Muybridge's work of inestimable value in aiding them to criticize intelligently.”--_Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia._
”The applause which greeted these wonderful pictures from the brilliant company was hearty in the extreme; and all predicted a new era was open to art, and new resources made available for the use of artists.”--_Galignani's Messenger, Paris._
”Of immense interest and value.”--_Lippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia._
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