Horses. Running – Antique Print
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/59/5925c040a8e4-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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Plate 37 from Eadweard Muybridge's *Attitudes of Animals in Motion* breaks a running horse into a series of consecutive positions, made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge used a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads stretched across the track, which froze the movement in fractions of a second. The work grew out of a question posed by Leland Stanford, who wanted to know whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four hooves off the ground at once. The copyright date of 1881 matches the year the full collection was published.
| 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. 37. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226686 |
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