Athletes. Irregular – Antique Print
![Athletes. Irregular, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8a72ab0fec18-L.webp)
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Plate 116 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881) shows an athlete moving through a run of irregular, acrobatic poses rather than the even strides of a horse. Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, where a row of cameras fired as the subjects broke trip wires. The albumen print carries his 1881 copyright and appears in the book's index of illustrations. Its subject headings, acrobatics and human locomotion, show how his motion studies extended from animals to people.
| 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. 116. 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 | 5,153 × 4,071 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226764 |
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