Horses. Running – Vintage Wall Art
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cf/cfee81be1fab-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: Horses. Running, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Plates 137 and 138 from Eadweard Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* show a running horse caught mid-stride, one of the sequences made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge worked there for Leland Stanford, the railroad builder and horse breeder who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge answered the question with a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by wires strung across the track, freezing each moment in a fraction of a second. The series helped lay the groundwork for motion pictures, which is why these Palo Alto experiments still draw attention.
| 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. 137-138. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Running--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,154 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226776 |
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