Front of electro-shutters, with positions of panels before, during, and after exposure – Historic Print
![Front of electro-shutters, with positions of panels before, during, and after exposure, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/91/91d23a0a0343-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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This rare historic photograph captures Front of electro-shutters, with positions of panels before, during, and after exposure in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Front of electro-shutters, with positions of panels before, during, and after exposure
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This plate is a working diagram rather than a photograph of the horses, showing how the electro-shutters were arranged in front of the camera lens and where each panel sat before, during, and after an exposure. Edward Muybridge built the device for his motion studies at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, when he was recording a running horse for Leland Stanford. A horse breaking a thread stretched across the track released the shutters, letting the lens capture an instant of movement in a fraction of a second. The plate appeared in Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, and it explains the mechanism that made his sequence photographs possible.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| 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, C. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from list of introductory illustrations in book, [p. 1]. |
| Subjects | Motion study photographs--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Photographic apparatus & supplies--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,122 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226649 |
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