Art & Photography Playlist #9 Philip Glass: The Photographer

Songs about Art and Photography: a playlist. #9 Philip Glass: The Photographer (click to play A Gentleman's Honor (- Act 1); click here to play entire opera).

Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878: movement reconstructed

All that white hair
A Gentleman's honour
And a long white beard
Burns up in fever

And this is artificial moonlight
An artificial sky

Horses in the air
Feet on the ground
Never seen
This picture before

And this is artificial moonlight
An artificial sky

Horses in the air
"Whose baby is this"
Never seen
This picture before  

A Gentleman's Honor by Philip Glass and David Byrne, from The Photographer, 1982 by Philip Glass.
 

Portrait of Eadweard Muybridge

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