Smith, W. Eugene. Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City by Stefan Lorant. Photographs by W. Eugene Smith, et al. Condition:Very good without dust jacket Haas chronicles the invention and

Haas chronicles the invention and exhibition of the zoopraxiscope—a pioneering device that projected painted sequences from spinning glass discs—positioning Muybridge as a definitive godfather of moving image projection long before the advent of flexible film strips

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and social transformation of Philadelphia from the birth of practical photography to the eve of World War I

atmospheric spaces

Smith, W. Eugene. Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City by Stefan Lorant. Photographs by W. Eugene Smith, et al. Condition:Very good without dust jacket Haas chronicles the invention andDoubleday, 1964. 1st edition. With contributions by Henry Steele Commager, Oscar Handlin, David L. Lawrence, John Morton Blum, Gerald W. Johnson, and others, with more than 1,000 illustrations. This huge book is especially notable for the many photographs by one of the great photographers of the 20th century, W. Eugene Smith. Lorant hired Smith to come to Pittsburgh for a relatively short time to fill in some gaps and Smith ended up living with Lorant