Horses. Running – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/13970a846f7c-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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Plate 39 in Eadweard Muybridge's book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows a running horse broken into a sequence of consecutive positions. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, working for Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground. Muybridge answered that question with a row of cameras triggered by tripwires along the track, an early demonstration of photography's power to freeze motion too fast for the eye to follow.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| 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. 39. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,121 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226688 |
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