Horses. Walking change to trotting – Vintage Print
![Horses. Walking change to trotting, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c84c607ed95a-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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This rare historic photograph captures Horses. Walking change to trotting in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horses. Walking change to trotting
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Here a horse is shown moving from a walk into a trot, with the sequence of positions laid out to show how its legs change during the shift. Eadweard Muybridge made the series at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras triggered as the animal passed, and the result appeared in his 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*. The subject index also lists carriages, a reminder of how often horses were harnessed to vehicles at the time. Muybridge's stop-action frames later served as the basis for projected moving images, which is why his work is often cited as an early step toward motion pictures.
| 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. 55. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Carriages & coaches--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,109 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226703 |
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