Apart from his books, Stephen wrote many articles, and book reviews. He was invited to lecture here and abroad.
Author:
- Industry, Liberty and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe’s Kinesigraph (The Projection Box 1998 and 2022)
- Theodore Brown’s Magic Pictures: The Art and Inventions of a Multi-Media Pioneer (The Projection Box 1997)
- Eadweard Muybridge: the Kingston Museum Bequest (The Projection Box 2004)
- The Dickens Daguerreotype Portraits. 2013, Blurb.co.uk
Publisher:
- The Projection Box (Pre-Cinema and Early Film publications).
Editor:
- Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema (with Luke McKernan) (BFI, 1996)
- A History of Pre-Cinema (facsimile selection) 3 vols. (Routledge,2000)
- A History of Early Film (facsimile selection) 3 vols. (Routledge 2000)
- A History of Early Television (facsimile collection) 3 vols. (Routledge 2004)
Programmer:
- Special Events, Museum of the Moving Image, 1995-1999
Consultant:
- Eadweard Muybridge consultant/cataloguer. Kingston Museum (1992 – 2000)
- Visual Technology Consultant, BFI, 1996-1999
- Hove Museum, new film galleries, 2001-2002
- Sheffield University “Visual Delights” conference, 1999 and 2002
- National Gallery, “Telling Time” exhibition, 2001
- University of Westminster, Lumière Centenary presentation, 1996
Exhibition Curator:
- Magical Lanterns, MOMI, 1990
- Catching the Action – Muybridge and the Chronophotographers, MOMI, 1992
- Countdown to Cinema, MOMI, 1996
- Magic Pictures, Salisbury Museum, 2000
Selected Articles:
- Persistence of Vision
- Animated Portrait Photography, History of Photography, 1989
- Projecting Nitrate, This Film is Dangerous (FIAF, 2002)
- The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs (Taschen, 2010)
