Athletes. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/65/652c8154339a-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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Step back in time with Athletes. Running, a historic photograph rich in period detail. 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 plates in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book on animal motion, this sequence of running athletes stands out because it turns from horses and dogs to people. It was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, during Muybridge's work for Leland Stanford's effort to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Each sequence broke a single movement into a row of consecutive frames, letting viewers study stride and posture in detail that the eye could not catch alone. This albumen print carries that method into a form that was widely circulated at the time.
| 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. 95. 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 | 5,138 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226743 |
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