Byron Wolfe and Scott Brady: Phantom Skies + Shifting Ground

In 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife’s lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panamá. Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (eleven are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. 

From 2007 – 2010, photographer BYRON WOLFE (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge Central American photograph. Working with cultural geographer Scott Brady, they traveled to many of Muybridge’s sites to rephotograph and study them. Through photographic collage, interpretive rephotography, illustrations and essays, this book examines an exceptionally rare series by Muybridge.