Athletes. Boxing – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Boxing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a06fee4bc323-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Athletes. Boxing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Two men square off in this series of boxing poses, one of several plates Eadweard Muybridge made of athletes at Palo Alto, California. The sequence is numbered in the 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it sits among his studies of movement. Muybridge had begun his motion work in 1872 at the request of Leland Stanford, who wanted to know whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. To answer that, Muybridge set up rows of cameras with shutters tripped by wires, so that each exposure caught a fraction of a second. Pictures like this one turned those experiments toward the human body and helped lay the groundwork for the moving images that followed.
| 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. 111. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Boxing--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 | 5,176 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226759 |
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