The horse in motion, first successful photographs of an animal in motion, forerunner of the motion picture by Muybridge

Muybridge

1878

photo, print, drawing

Library of Congress

ca. 56 photographic prints on 6 cards. | Series of small photos of individual race horses walking, trotting, cantering, or running, showing successive leg movements, taken at Palo Alto track, Calif. Speed of exposures made possible by Muybridge's "Automatic electro-photographic apparatus."