#PHOTOS OF THE HORAE SERIES#

He placed numerous large glass-plate cameras in a line along the edge of the track the shutter of each was triggered by a thread as the horse passed (in later studies he used a clockwork device to set off the shutters and capture the images). The path was lined with cloth sheets to reflect as much light as possible.

#PHOTOS OF THE HORAE SERIES#

Muybridge planned to take a series of photos on 15 June 1878 at Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm. 'Stanford also wanted a study of the horse at a gallop. By 1878, spurred on by Stanford to expand the experiments, Muybridge had successfully photographed a horse at a trot lantern slides have survived of this later work. He later did additional studies, as well as improving his camera for quicker shutter speed and faster film emulsions. This negative was lost, but the image survives through woodcuts made at the time (the technology for printed reproductions of photographs was still being developed). 'In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing his Standardbred trotting horse Occident airborne at the trot. The resulting photo sequence proved that there is a point when no hooves touch the ground and set the stage for the first motion pictures. He arranged 12 trip-wire cameras along a racetrack in the path of a galloping horse. In 1878, after six years of work on the project, Muybridge succeeded.

This challenged Muybridge to look for a way to capture the sequence of movement. In 1872 former governor of California and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle a debate whether, during its gait, all four of a horse's hooves are simultaneously off the ground.

Photos of the horae