The Zoopraxiscope - A Horse Back Somersault – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of The Zoopraxiscope - A Horse Back Somersault. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
The Zoopraxiscope - A Horse Back Somersault
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Few pictures on this board show a single stunt as cleanly as this one: a horse caught mid-somersault, its body folded through a full turn. The image comes from the zoopraxiscope, the projector Eadweard Muybridge developed in the late 1870s to animate his photographic studies of motion. Muybridge used sequences of photographs, traced or printed onto rotating glass discs, so that a viewer saw a short loop of movement rather than a still frame. Its appeal lies in how it bridged the gap between photography and the moving picture, a step that helped set the stage for cinema.
| Original scan | 3,972 × 3,969 px · prints to 13 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05946uThe zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault |
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