Athletes. Swinging clubs – Antique Wall Art
![Athletes. Swinging clubs, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9b/9b7bf384233b-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. Swinging clubs, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Athletes. Swinging clubs
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Two athletes swing Indian clubs in this sequence, which Muybridge reproduced as plate 108 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The series was made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, on the estate of Leland Stanford, who had hired Muybridge to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Muybridge used rows of cameras with tripwire shutters to freeze motion in quick succession, and he applied the same method to people, animals and athletic exercises. Viewed together, the frames show how a swinging club moves through the body, which made the set useful to artists and to anyone studying movement.
| 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. 108. 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 | 5,110 × 4,082 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226756 |
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