Horses. Walking – Historic Print
![Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/767e5395a20f-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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Among the many Muybridge plates of horses on this board, this albumen print stands apart for its plain subject: a horse simply walking, captured as a sequence of positions rather than in a gallop or a jump. It was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when Eadweard Muybridge set up a row of cameras along a track to photograph animals in motion, and it was later published in 1881 as plate no. 10 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. Walking was the gait that most clearly showed the sequence of leg movements, which is why the series is still studied today as an early step toward motion pictures.
| 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. 10. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226659 |
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