Hollis Frampton begins his 1973 essay, “Eadweard Muybridge: Fragments of a Tesseract” by lamenting “an irksome paradox of public consciousness” that, “to be accorded the status of a legend is to be whittled down to a microscopic point, a nonentity at the intersection of a random handful of idiosyncrasies, tidbits of gossip, shreds of advertising […]