General view of experiment track, background and cameras – Vintage Wall Art
![General view of experiment track, background and cameras, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a2e7d1ef8488-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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General view of experiment track, background and cameras comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Most of the Muybridge plates show a horse or a man mid-stride, but this one pulls back to show the apparatus itself: the long experiment track at Palo Alto, the painted background set behind it, and the row of cameras waiting along the course. Muybridge made the work in 1878 and 1879 for Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. The setup was a line of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads stretched across the track, so the animal broke each wire as it passed. This 1881 print was issued as an illustration in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, and it documents the method behind the sequences that later became a foundation of motion pictures.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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, F. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from list of introductory illustrations in book, [p. 1]. |
| Subjects | Cameras--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Motion study photographs--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Research facilities--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,143 × 4,120 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226650 |
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