Athletes. Standing leaps – Antique Wall Art
![Athletes. Standing leaps, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0f26d930fc80-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Athletes. Standing leaps in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Athletes. Standing leaps
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Athletes caught mid-jump fill this plate, which breaks the standing long jump into a rapid series of positions. Eadweard Muybridge made the sequence at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras with tripwire shutters that fired in quick succession. The project began with Leland Stanford's question about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and it grew into a wider study of motion in both animals and people. This print was published in 1881 as plate 100 in Muybridge's book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where the images are meant to be read in order, frame by frame.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index." |
| Notes | Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, no. 100. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Jumping--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Athletes--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Human locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,149 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226748 |
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