Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/17/175fbbd4b83d-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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Step back in time with Horses. Running, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Muybridge's "Horses. Running" comes from a series he made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when a row of cameras fired in quick succession as a horse galloped past tripwires. This albumen print was published in 1881 as part of The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, where it shows the consecutive poses of a running horse as sequential frames. The sequence was a direct answer to a question that had divided horsemen and painters for generations: whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop. Worth noticing is how the picture turns a single fleeting moment into a record that the eye could study one step at a time.
| 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. 141-142. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,098 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226777 |
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