Athletes. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/8443d9674501-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. Running
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Rather than a horse or other animal, this plate shows human runners, captured in a numbered sequence of albumen prints (no. 99) in the 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The photographs were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, where Eadweard Muybridge arranged a row of cameras with trip wires to freeze motion in fractions of a second. The project grew out of Leland Stanford's question of whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and the book's plates extended the same method to athletes. The copyright date of 1881 marks when the series was published.
| 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. 99. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--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 | 5,160 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226747 |
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