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Athletes. Posturing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Athletes. Posturing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Photograph shows eleven consecutive images a man lifting a dumbell, posturing, doing a handstand and other acrobatics.
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. 114.
Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge.
Title from "Index to Illustrations" in book. See LC-USZC4-13693, LC-USZC4-13694, and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index.

Locomotion was a popular method of making a series of consecutive images for artistic and scientific purposes.

Chronophotography is "a set of photographs of a moving object taken for the purpose of recording and displaying successive phases of motion. The term chronophotography was coined by French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey to describe photographs of movement from which measurements and study of motion could be derived. It is derived from the Greek word “chronos” (time), combined with photography. Marey’s pioneering work in the field of chronophotography can be seen to have lead directly to the development of cinematography.

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01/01/1881
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Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904, photographer
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