Horses. Pacing – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Pacing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/36/365ec6cb8242-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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Rather than a galloping or trotting horse, this plate shows a pacer, an animal whose legs on the same side move forward together, a gait that looks very different from the diagonal stride of a trot. Eadweard Muybridge made the sequence at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, setting a row of cameras along a track and triggering them with threads stretched across the path. The subjects include a carriage, which places the motion in the working world of the period's roads. Published in 1881 as number 20 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the plate shows how photography could break a moving body into steps the eye could not see.
| 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. 20. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,148 × 4,088 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226669 |
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