Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1ed0ec65e7b0-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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Made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto horse farm, this albumen print is one of Eadweard Muybridge's studies of a running horse, taken with a row of cameras that were triggered as the animal passed. The project was meant to settle a long-running argument about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge collected these images in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, copyrighted in 1881, where this motion study appears as one of its plates. Its value lies in breaking a fast movement into a sequence of readable poses, a method that later helped lead to 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. 163-164. 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 | 5,176 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226788 |
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