Albumen print, mounted on the original cardboard 16 x 22,2 cm Photographer's "1881 by Edw..J. Muybridge" copyright stamp on the mount The British photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in visual studies of locomotion. The possibility for recording split-second movements originated from a rich man’s bet: whether or not a galloping horse ever had all four feet off the ground at any time during its stride. Because the unaided eye cannot see such an instantaneous event, Leland Stanford hired Eadweard Muybridge to photograph his racehorse. He used twenty-four cameras with electromagnetic shutters that were tripped by wires as an animal ran across a track. After Muybridge produced the proof to win the bet, he continued his motion experiments. At Stanford’s Palo Alto ranch, he captured photographic sequences, mainly of horses, that would appear in his 1881 privately published and handmade album The Attitudes of Animals in Motion. The present albumen print is an original page from this extremely rare album. Later, in 1887, Muybridge published his better- known portfolio Animal Locomotion, which was produced mechanically in a collotype technique and published in a much higher edition.
Albumen print, mounted on the original cardboard 16 x 22,2 cm Photographer's "1881 by Edw..J. Muybridge" copyright stamp on the mount The British photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in visual studies of locomotion. The possibility for recording split-second movements originated from a rich man’s bet: whether or not a galloping horse ever had all four feet off the ground at any time during its stride. Because the unaided eye cannot see such an instantaneous event, Leland Stanford hired Eadweard Muybridge to photograph his racehorse. He used twenty-four cameras with electromagnetic shutters that were tripped by wires as an animal ran across a track. After Muybridge produced the proof to win the bet, he continued his motion experiments. At Stanford’s Palo Alto ranch, he captured photographic sequences, mainly of horses, that would appear in his 1881 privately published and handmade album The Attitudes of Animals in Motion. The present albumen print is an original page from this extremely rare album. Later, in 1887, Muybridge published his better- known portfolio Animal Locomotion, which was produced mechanically in a collotype technique and published in a much higher edition.
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