Athletes. Walking – Historic Print
![Athletes. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/61932e9bfb88-L.webp)
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Muybridge's sequence of a walking athlete belongs to a larger body of work he made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, when he set up a row of cameras along a track and triggered them in turn as subjects passed. This print was published in 1881 as part of *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it appears as plate 93, and it captures a man stepping through the stages of a walk. The sequence was a practical answer to a question people had argued about for decades, namely what a body actually does between footfalls, and it helped lay groundwork for the motion pictures that came later.
| 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. 93. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Walking--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 | 5,187 × 4,105 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226741 |
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