Horses. Running – Historic Print
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/21f40dfde348-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 running horse here is plate 42 from his 1881 book on animal motion, one of a series made at Leland Stanford's horse farm in Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. The photographs were meant to settle a long-running argument over whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once, a question the naked eye could not answer. Muybridge used a row of cameras with trip wires stretched across the track so that each shutter fired as the animal passed. The sequence later became a touchstone in the history of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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. 42. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,148 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226691 |
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