Boar, walking – Antique Print
![Boar, walking, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f0bde201c38e-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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Boar, walking
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Among the animal studies in Eadweard Muybridge's series, this plate shows a boar in the middle of a stride, one of the consecutive positions he recorded to break down how animals move. The photographs were made at Stanford's Palo Alto property in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras triggered by tripwires as the animal crossed in front of them. Published in 1881 as *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, the series is an early and influential step toward motion pictures, showing that a moving body could be understood as a sequence of frozen moments.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| 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. 90. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Walking--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Boars--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,127 × 4,121 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226738 |
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