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[Title page of The attitudes of animals in motion"]" – Vintage Print

[Title page of The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic print
[Title page of The attitudes of animals in motion"]", [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.. Historic print from the Movies & Film collection.

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The title page of Edward Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* carries a San Francisco imprint and a copyright notice dated 1881. The photographs it introduces were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the property of Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge answered with a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by wires along the track, producing sequences that changed how artists and scientists understood motion. Compared with those images, the letterpress page is a plain piece of print, but it marks the point where the experiments were packaged for a wider audience.

Created / published[San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881.
Medium1 print : letterpress.
GenreTitle pages 1880-1890.Letterpress works 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. 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, title page. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from item.
SubjectsAnimal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,149 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226642

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