Ox, running, irregular – Historic Reproduction
![Ox, running, irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/8327668418c2-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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A window into the past: Ox, running, irregular, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few animals in Eadweard Muybridge's sequence studies were as unexpected as an ox, and this print shows one at a run, its legs caught in an irregular gait rather than a neat stride. The photograph comes from The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, a series Muybridge made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879 and published as a book in 1881, the year this print is dated. He worked with a row of cameras fired by tripwires along a track, so each frame recorded a fraction of a second of movement. Prints like this one, numbered in the book's index, helped settle long-running questions about how four-legged animals actually move.
| 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. 81. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Oxen--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,159 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226729 |
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