Horses. Trotting--Horses. Walking – Vintage Print
![Horses. Trotting--Horses. Walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e50b2ec7e364-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Horses. Trotting--Horses. Walking. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Horses. Trotting--Horses. Walking
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Rather than a single horse, this print shows a pair of plates from Eadweard Muybridge's book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* (1881), which record a trotting horse and a walking horse at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge set up a row of cameras along a track and tripped their shutters in quick succession as the animal passed, so that the sequence of frames broke a single stride into its component positions. The work was done for Leland Stanford, the former governor who owned a horse breeding operation there, and it was aimed at settling questions about how horses actually move. Its importance lies in showing that the eye could not reliably see those fast motions unaided.
| 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. 183-184. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Walking--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 | 5,165 × 4,110 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226798 |
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