Horses. Backing – Historic Reproduction
![Horses. Backing, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/de9e1972d63e-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. Backing in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Plate 72 in Eadweard Muybridge's series shows a horse stepping backward, a motion the title names, broken into a sequence of separate exposures rather than one image. The photographs were made at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879 on the stock farm of Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and horse breeder who had asked Muybridge to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground. Muybridge published the results as *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* in 1881, and this albumen print comes from that project. Its run of poses shows how a movement too quick for the eye to follow can be split into its parts.
| 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. 72. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,149 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226720 |
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