Athletes. Throwing lance – Antique Print
![Athletes. Throwing lance, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/34/34928f058db9-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. Throwing lance comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Athletes. Throwing lance
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One frame from a sequence of a man throwing a lance, this image is number 107 in Eadweard Muybridge's published studies. The photographs were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to split fast action into successive moments. Collected in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, copyrighted in 1881, the series helped lay the groundwork for motion pictures. Worth noticing is how a single position in the throw, frozen mid-motion, shows what the eye could never separate on its own.
| 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. 107. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Throwing--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 | 5,138 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226755 |
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