Horses. Irregular – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40be3502e277-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Irregular in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Among Muybridge's Palo Alto studies, this plate stands out for pairing a horse with a carriage, a reminder that the work covered working animals as well as racehorses. It was made during the 1878 and 1879 sessions at Leland Stanford's stock farm, where a row of cameras fired as a horse passed along a track, a method built to settle whether all four hooves leave the ground during a gallop. Published in 1881 as *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the plate shows how sequential photography could break down movement the eye could not follow, and that approach later fed directly into the development of motion pictures.
| 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. 67. 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 | 5,159 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226715 |
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