The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing
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Unlike the other locomotion studies on this board, this print is a color lithograph of a zoopraxiscope disc, a device Eadweard Muybridge used to project sequences of motion as moving images. Its subject is boxing, a sport Muybridge photographed in detail during his animal and human locomotion work at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1880s. The disc design turns those separate photographic poses into a loop, so the viewer sees a fighter's movements as one continuous action. The print also reflects the late 1890s interest in early moving pictures, when audiences were just learning to read motion on a screen.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 14666Y U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 2. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Boxing--1890-1900. Locomotion--1890-1900. Optical illusions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,037 × 3,032 px · prints to 10 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221181 |
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