Horses. Backing – Vintage Print
![Horses. Backing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/45/456f128c66c4-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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A window into the past: Horses. Backing, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A horse steps backward in this sequence, with each stage of the movement recorded separately, something the eye cannot pick apart at normal speed. Eadweard Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the stock farm of Leland Stanford, where a row of cameras was set along a track and their shutters were tripped as the horse passed. The print is plate 71 in Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. It is worth comparing with the forward-walking sequences to see how differently a horse's legs move when it reverses.
| 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. 71. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,127 × 4,088 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226719 |
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