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[Single frame showing horse with all four legs off the ground] – Vintage Print

[Single frame showing horse with all four legs off the ground] — historic photograph
[Single frame showing horse with all four legs off the ground]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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 [Single frame showing horse with all four legs off the ground], a historic photograph 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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[Single frame showing horse with all four legs off the ground]

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A single frame catches a horse at the moment when all four hooves leave the ground, a pose that was hard to see with the eye and that people argued about for generations. Whether a galloping horse ever lifted fully clear of the ground was a question for painters, horsemen and scientists alike, and it was answered most decisively by photography in the late 1870s, when fast shutters and multi-camera sequences began to freeze motion too brief for human vision. The record does not give a date or photographer, so the exact occasion is unknown, but the image is worth noticing for how it turns a moment too quick to see into visible evidence.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,471 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126436

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