Athletes. Twisting summersault – Antique Wall Art
![Athletes. Twisting summersault, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/7589c1c05128-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 rare historic photograph captures Athletes. Twisting summersault in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Athletes. Twisting summersault
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A twisting somersault, shown as a run of positions frozen in mid-air, distinguishes this plate from Muybridge's better-known horse studies. It was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, and appeared as number 106 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, which gathered the series under one title. Muybridge used a row of cameras fired by trip wires to capture movements too quick for the eye to follow, and the acrobat's body turning over itself shows how finely the method could break down a single action. The print is an albumen print, a process common for photographic prints of the period.
| 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. 106. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Acrobatics--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 | 5,170 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226754 |
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