Athletes. Irregular – Historic Reproduction
![Athletes. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1e2f7077770e-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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Muybridge's "Athletes" is a sequence of figures captured mid-motion, part of the larger body of work he made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879 for Leland Stanford's horse-motion experiments. The plate appears as no. 117 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, published in 1881, and its record lists the subjects as acrobatics, athletes, and human locomotion. Muybridge set up multiple cameras along a track and triggered them in rapid succession, so a single subject could be broken into a row of consecutive frames. The images helped settle a question that had puzzled painters and scientists for generations: what the body actually does during a stride, a leap, or a fall. Their influence reached forward to the development of motion pictures.
| 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. 117. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Acrobatics--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 | 5,165 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226765 |
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