Athletes. Flip flap – Historic Reproduction
![Athletes. Flip flap, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/31/31dc4f21b067-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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Athletes. Flip flap
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Acrobats performing a backward "flip flap" give this plate its energy, with each stage of the tumble laid out in sequence. Muybridge made the photographs at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras whose shutters were triggered as the performers passed trip wires. The print was copyrighted in 1881 and appeared as plate 109 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book that grew out of Leland Stanford's question about whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Read across the frames, the sequence shows the rotation of the body in a way the eye alone could not follow.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| 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. 109. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Acrobatics--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Athletes--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Human locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226757 |
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