Publications

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)