Word: eadweard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Leland Stanford of California [1824-93], a racing man, exploded this "hobbyhorse" pose long before the days of the movies. Wanting to know how a horse moved his legs, so they could be made to move faster, he hired a photographer [Eadweard Muybridge] to set up a series of cameras along the race track with threads stretched across the track and attached to the camera shutters so that as the horse ran past he took his own picture at intervals. When the plates were developed, the horse appeared in postures no artist had imagined . . . Frederic Remington was bold enough...