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[Page of text with description of introductory photographs from The attitudes of animals in motion"]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Page of text with description of introductory photographs from The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph
[Page of text with description of introductory photographs from The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

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This page is printed text rather than a photograph: it is the introductory leaf of Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, which presents the series of sequence photographs that follow it. The pictures were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge arranged a line of cameras along a track and triggered them as animals passed. The work grew out of a long-running question about whether a trotting horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground at once, and the photographs gave motion studies a new evidentiary basis.

Created / published[San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.
Medium1 print : letterpress.
GenreLetterpress works 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. 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, [p. 1]. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from item.
SubjectsAnimal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,116 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226643

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