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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1679446, member: 19463"]I would never call the pose shown 'galloping'. The horse appears to be rearing up with both rear feet on the ground and both fronts off. The photography reference was a bet in the 1870's settled by photographer Eadweard Muybridge as to whether a running horse ever had all four feet off of the ground. He set up a series of cameras tripped by threads that shot the horse as it passed and established that the old rocking horse view of horses used before that time was never a pose achieved by real horses. Muybridge later shot all sorts of animals in this same way producing a book Animal Locomotion and a book of people doing various things called Human Figure in Motion. The amazing thing about these books is just how many things he thought to include (I believe there was a man carrying bricks up a ladder). The books became great sourcebooks for artists wishing to have natural poses of moving, living things. One form or another of his images have remained in print for all these years but the original volumes with tipped in photos are very collectable and expensive now.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=muybridge+motion+studies&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=841&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DdRaUeGICIizyAHG4oGgDQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=583" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=muybridge+motion+studies&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=841&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DdRaUeGICIizyAHG4oGgDQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=583" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=muybridge+motion+studies&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=841&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DdRaUeGICIizyAHG4oGgDQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=583</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Muybridge was a very interesting man with great landscape photos from his early days and his motion studies placing him firmly as a father of the motion picture. In his spare time, he was acquitted of the shooting at point blank range a man he believed fathered his wife's child (justifiable homicide after the insanity defense failed). </p><p><br /></p><p>To the best of my knowledge, he never shot a coin photograph making this post wholly inappropriate. My apologies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1679446, member: 19463"]I would never call the pose shown 'galloping'. The horse appears to be rearing up with both rear feet on the ground and both fronts off. The photography reference was a bet in the 1870's settled by photographer Eadweard Muybridge as to whether a running horse ever had all four feet off of the ground. He set up a series of cameras tripped by threads that shot the horse as it passed and established that the old rocking horse view of horses used before that time was never a pose achieved by real horses. Muybridge later shot all sorts of animals in this same way producing a book Animal Locomotion and a book of people doing various things called Human Figure in Motion. The amazing thing about these books is just how many things he thought to include (I believe there was a man carrying bricks up a ladder). The books became great sourcebooks for artists wishing to have natural poses of moving, living things. One form or another of his images have remained in print for all these years but the original volumes with tipped in photos are very collectable and expensive now. [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=muybridge+motion+studies&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=841&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DdRaUeGICIizyAHG4oGgDQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=583[/URL] Muybridge was a very interesting man with great landscape photos from his early days and his motion studies placing him firmly as a father of the motion picture. In his spare time, he was acquitted of the shooting at point blank range a man he believed fathered his wife's child (justifiable homicide after the insanity defense failed). To the best of my knowledge, he never shot a coin photograph making this post wholly inappropriate. My apologies.[/QUOTE]
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