Athletes. Posturing – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Posturing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8d91a86ac0bb-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: Athletes. Posturing, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Plate 115 in Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* shows athletes and acrobats holding a series of poses, captured at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Those sessions began at the Palo Alto property of Leland Stanford, who had hired Muybridge to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Muybridge used a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to freeze movement in fractions of a second, and he later turned the same method toward people. The sequence is worth studying as a record of the body in motion, not only as a set of portraits.
| 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. 115. 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 | 5,181 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226763 |
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