Athletes. Walking – Historic Reproduction
![Athletes. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a80e7536c023-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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A window into the past: Athletes. Walking, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Athletes. Walking
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Among Eadweard Muybridge's Palo Alto studies, this print shows athletes walking, broken into a row of separate exposures that capture each step. It comes from the 1878 and 1879 sessions in Palo Alto, California, and was published in 1881 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, where it sits among the plates on human movement. Muybridge's work began with a question from Leland Stanford about whether a galloping horse ever has all four feet off the ground, and his cameras, triggered by tripwires, made motion visible in a way the eye could not. Worth noticing is how ordinary the gait looks, and how the sequence turns a casual walk into a study of balance and rhythm.
| 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. 192-193. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Walking--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 | 5,132 × 4,148 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226801 |
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