Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5a/5a9a98642594-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 albumen print is plate 36 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881), and it shows a running horse broken into a series of consecutive positions. The sequences were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on land tied to Leland Stanford's horse breeding interests, and Muybridge used a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to freeze strides too quick for the eye to follow. The plates helped settle a long-running argument about whether all four hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop, and they remain a landmark of early motion photography.
| 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. [36]. 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 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226685 |
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