Athletes. Irregular – Historic Print
![Athletes. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/82/82631e0d3974-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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Athletes. Irregular
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Plate 118 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows athletes in unusual, off-pattern poses, the kind the title "Irregular" refers to. The series was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when Muybridge arranged rows of cameras fired by trip wires to freeze movement too quick for the eye. The project grew out of the question of whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four hooves at once, and this plate shows how his method extended from animals to people. It is an important step toward the moving pictures that followed.
| 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. 118. 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 | 5,121 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226766 |
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