Athletes. Running – Vintage Print
![Athletes. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fa/fa3b7d0cfb9f-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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A window into the past: Athletes. Running, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Plate 97 in Muybridge's 1881 book *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion* turns from the horses that made his name to human runners, which sets it apart from the rest of the series. Muybridge made the studies at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, using a row of cameras with tripwire shutters to capture each stage of a stride. Read as a sequence, the frames break a running body into positions the eye cannot follow at full speed. The album print was issued under Muybridge's copyright and stands among the early attempts to study human movement photographically.
| 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. 97. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Running--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 | 5,165 × 4,132 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226745 |
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