Horses. Running – Historic Print
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2a/2a9a23db38c0-L.webp)
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Among the plates in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* is this view of running horses, numbered 153 and 154 in its index and made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track, each triggered by a tripwire as the horse passed, to capture stages of a stride too quick for the eye to separate. The work was commissioned in part by Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop. The sequence helped make Muybridge's photographs a landmark in the study of motion.
| 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. 153-154. 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 | 5,159 × 4,137 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226783 |
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