Athletes. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/45/459da437be96-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. Running comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Athletes. Running
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Among the Palo Alto studies, this plate isolates a human runner, photographed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge set a line of cameras along the track, each with a shutter tripped by a thread that the runner broke, so the figure was caught in a series of fractions of a second. The plate was published as number 96 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, copyrighted in 1881, a book that grew out of Leland Stanford's question about whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground. Today it reads as an early step toward moving 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. 96. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--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 | 5,148 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226744 |
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