Athletes. Swinging pick – Historic Print
![Athletes. Swinging pick, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3a/3a483d2b023f-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. Swinging pick
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A man mid-swing with a pick is the subject of this plate, one of the human movement studies Eadweard Muybridge made at Palo Alto in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge was working for former California governor Leland Stanford, who had hired him to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and the same camera setup was turned to people performing everyday and athletic actions. Published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the image breaks a single swing into consecutive positions, which made it a useful reference for artists and scientists studying movement.
| 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. 110. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Equipment--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 | 5,105 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226758 |
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