Athletes. Posturing – Vintage Wall Art
![Athletes. Posturing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a9/a978ee654b05-L.webp)
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Among the human studies Eadweard Muybridge made at Palo Alto, this print shows athletes caught mid-posture rather than in ordinary walking or running. It was issued in 1881 as plate 114 in *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, a book gathering his series made in 1878 and 1879 on the Palo Alto property associated with Leland Stanford. Muybridge set a row of cameras along a track and tripped their shutters with wires, breaking a single movement into a sequence of separate exposures. The result shows how the body actually holds itself through a stretch of action, a question painters and sculptors had long answered from observation and guesswork.
| 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. 114. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Acrobatics--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 | 5,138 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226762 |
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