الكاتب: Multiple References

In 1872 Muybridge’s photographic skills were called on to prove whether a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in its sequence of motion. Some already suspected that this was so, but the key moment was too fleeting for the human eye to see. Muybridge’s experiments initially took place at the Sacramento racetrack, and were funded by the wealthy Leland Stanford. As the owner of many thoroughbred racehorses, Stanford wanted to understand the physiology of a horse’s movement to inform his breeding and training programmes. Given the limitations of photographic processes at this date, Muybridge’s first results were unpublishable.