The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing – Antique Wall Art
(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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The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing
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Numbered No. 2 in its series, this color lithograph reproduces a sequence of boxers in the style of Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope discs. Muybridge designed the device, a projector that threw painted images from rotating glass disks onto a screen so that a series of still poses appeared to move. He had begun studying human and animal motion with multiple cameras in the late 1870s, and by the early 1890s his sequences were being shown as popular entertainment. The print is a useful record of how early motion pictures were built from individual frames.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 14666Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 2. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Boxing--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,922 × 3,888 px · prints to 13 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 05948u The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing |
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