Athletes. Fencing – Historic Reproduction
![Athletes. Fencing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/13fd7575a60b-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Athletes. Fencing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Athletes. Fencing
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Few pictures in the Palo Alto series show people at sport as directly as this sequence of fencers, listed as number 112 in Muybridge's book on animal attitudes. He made the exposures in 1878 and 1879 with a row of cameras triggered by tripwires, then published the results under copyright in 1881. The studies began as a question about how horses move, and the lunges and parries here were broken into frames the eye could not follow at full speed. The plate shows how that inquiry widened to take in human bodies.
| 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. 112. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Fencing--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 | 5,143 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226760 |
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