Horses. Walking – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/de9508d4ed27-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 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A horse caught mid-stride at a walk is the subject of this plate, one of the consecutive sequences Eadweard Muybridge made of animals in motion at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. He took these with a row of cameras triggered by tripwires, so each frame recorded a fraction of a second of movement. The work was done on Leland Stanford's horse-breeding farm and helped answer a long-running question about how horses move their legs, which Muybridge later published as a book in 1881. The print is worth studying for how clearly it lays out the sequence of footfalls in a walk.
| 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. 119-120. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,126 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226767 |
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