The zoopraxiscope - a couple waltzing – Historic Print
(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 The zoopraxiscope - a couple waltzing, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The zoopraxiscope - a couple waltzing
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This color lithograph shows a couple waltzing, a subject Eadweard Muybridge chose for the zoopraxiscope, the projector he developed to show sequences of motion. Its copyright line and number, 35, suggest it belonged to a published series of his movement studies from the early 1890s. Muybridge built these images from photographic studies of people in motion, and his work helped lay groundwork for early motion pictures. The figures are posed in a series of small steps, which were meant to blur into movement when projected.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 14699Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 35. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Dance--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,979 × 3,906 px · prints to 13 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 05949u The zoopraxiscope - a couple waltzing |
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