Athletes. Running – Historic Print
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a6/a6391878c46c-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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Step back in time with Athletes. Running, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Athletes. Running
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Among the Palo Alto studies Eadweard Muybridge made for his book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, this numbered plate breaks a runner's stride into a row of successive poses. The photographs were taken in 1878 and 1879 with a set of cameras along a track, triggered by trip wires, which let Muybridge capture movements too quick for the eye to separate. The project grew out of a wager over whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground, and the athletic figures show how the same method applied to people. The copyright was registered in 1881, the year this albumen print appeared.
| 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. 94. 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 | 5,142 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226742 |
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