Athletes. Running long leap – Historic Print
![Athletes. Running long leap, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/402767758a05-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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Eadweard Muybridge caught this runner mid-leap during a running long jump, one of the athletic subjects he recorded at Palo Alto, California. The sequence was made in 1878 and 1879 and published as plate 101 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, copyrighted by Muybridge in 1881. The project began with a question from Leland Stanford about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and Muybridge answered it with a line of cameras triggered by tripwires. The same method was turned on people, so the jumper's body can be read one moment at a time.
| 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. 101. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Jumping--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 | 5,198 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226749 |
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