Athletes. Walking high leap – Vintage Print
![Athletes. Walking high leap, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e3/e3d366c9c715-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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Athletes. Walking high leap
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A walking high leap, plate 102 in Muybridge's sequence, shows an athlete caught mid-motion as he approaches and clears a bar. Eadweard Muybridge made these studies at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads as the subject passed. The series was later gathered into *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* and published in 1881, the year of this albumen print's copyright. Muybridge's work was meant to settle a question about how bodies move, and this sequence of jumping poses remains a useful record of late nineteenth-century athletic technique.
| 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. 102. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Jumping--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Athletes--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Human locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,093 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226750 |
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