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Anschütz, Ottomar
(1846-1907)Horse rider jumping over a hurdle

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Horse rider jumping over a hurdle. 1885-1886. 16 albumen prints bound together as leporello (some foxing along edges of boards). Each ca. 7,6 x 9 cm (entire size 10,2 x 154 cm). Each embossed with the photographer's studio stamp in lower margin of prints as well as letterpress studio information on lower margin of boards.

Ottomar Anschütz is renowned for his pioneering work in motion photography and chronophotography. His high-speed sequences, capturing movement with remarkable precision, include studies such as horses in motion and birds in flight. Anschütz’s most famous invention, the Electrotachyscope, projected sequential photographs as moving images, playing a crucial role in the development of modern cinema and cementing his legacy in photographic technology. Complete photographic series of his motion studies, like the one presented here, are exceptionally rare. – Some light fading, otherwise in very good condition.