GUY DELISLE

“FÜR DEN BRUCHTEIL EINER SEKUNDE”

In 1855, the young Englishman Eadweard Muybridge immigrated to California. He became fascinated by a technical process that was still in its infancy at the time: photography. With financial support from Leland Stanford, one of the wealthiest railway entrepreneurs in the United States, Muybridge achieved something unprecedented: he captured the galloping run of a horse on film and proved that a horse's hooves do not touch the ground during a full gallop.

His groundbreaking motion studies changed our understanding of time, image, and movement and laid the foundation for film. Long before Thomas Alva Edison and the Lumière brothers, Muybridge used film to freeze time, becoming one of the most famous photographers of his era. In For a Fraction of a Second, Guy Delisle—himself a trained cartoonist—portrays this pioneer of cinema who has been unjustly forgotten by history.

Guy Delisle

“Muybridge: Für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde”

Translated from French by Ulrich Pröfrock.

Lettering: Tim Gaedke

Font: Guy Delisle.

208 pages, color, 17 × 23.8 cm, hardcover

Publisher: Reprodukt, Berlin

Guy Delisle is a Canadian native who has been living in Montpellier since the 1990s. He initially worked in an animation studio before dedicating himself more to comics.

His breakthrough came with "Shenzhen" (2000). Shortly thereafter, he published another book at L'Association called "Pyongyang," in which he similarly documented his personal experiences in North Korea. This was followed by "Burmese Days" and "Jerusalem Chronicles." Most recently, he visited Frankfurt with his book "Hostage." Guy Delisle's drawing style is simple, distinctive, and precise.