Horses. Running--Horses. Running--Horses. Running--Horses. Walking--Athletes. Running – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Running--Horses. Running--Horses. Running--Horses. Walking--Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/853d7711feb2-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 Muybridge's sequences, this print is distinctive for pairing horses with human walkers and runners, drawn from plates 187 through 191 of his 1881 book on animal motion. The series was made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto horse farm in 1878 and 1879, where Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track and triggered their shutters as the subjects passed. The resulting frames broke motion into a sequence of positions, helping settle the long-running question of whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's experiments also laid groundwork for motion pictures, which is why the image is often studied in film history.
| 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. 187-191. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Athletes--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Human locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,154 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226800 |
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