Athletes. Walking high leap – Vintage Print
![Athletes. Walking high leap, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5f/5fbb107611b4-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: Athletes. Walking high leap, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Plate 103 in Eadweard Muybridge's *Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows an athlete in a walking high leap, with the movement broken into a row of frames so each stage can be studied. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a battery of cameras whose shutters were tripped as the subject passed a background ruled with lines for measure. The work grew out of Leland Stanford's question about whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and the human studies extended that inquiry into how the body moves. This albumen print was copyrighted in 1881.
| 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. 103. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Jumping--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 | 5,138 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226751 |
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