A photographing camera and back of electro-shutter – Historic Photo Reproduction
![A photographing camera and back of electro-shutter, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a563fc9556f8-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 A photographing camera and back of electro-shutter. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Muybridge's own apparatus is the subject here: a view of the camera and the electro-shutter that tripped it, shown as an illustration for the 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The series behind the book was made at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, where a row of cameras was triggered by threads stretched across the track as horses ran past. Muybridge's electrically released shutters were what let him freeze motion in fractions of a second, and this print documents the mechanism that made the sequences possible. Its albumen process was the standard printing method of the period.
| 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, B. 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. Cameras--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226648 |
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