Athletes. Back summersault – Antique Print
![Athletes. Back summersault, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/ba15c6c1cc51-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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Athletes. Back summersault comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Athletes. Back summersault
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Few images in this board are as direct about their purpose as this albumen print of a back somersault. Eadweard Muybridge made it in Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires to capture a figure at successive moments of a single movement. The sequence was later published in "The Attitudes of Animals in Motion," where this frame appears as plate 105. Muybridge's work anticipated the motion pictures that would follow within a generation, and the ordered sequence of poses here shows how a body turns through the air in a way the eye cannot follow at full speed.
| 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. 105. 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 | 5,126 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226753 |
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