Athletes. Running – Historic Print
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9b/9b8f593710c1-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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Athletes. Running comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Unlike the horse studies that made Eadweard Muybridge famous, this print shows people. It is plate 98 in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, listed under the heading "Athletes, Running." Muybridge made the Palo Alto series in 1878 and 1879 for Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Using a row of trip-wire cameras, Muybridge broke motion into fractions of a second, and his stop-action sequences helped pave the way for motion pictures.
| 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. 98. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--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 | 5,143 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226746 |
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