Lenticular Postcard - Running Deer

This lenticular postcard, which animates the images as you move it back and forth, celebrates one of Eadweard Muybridge's best known works, 'The Attitudes of Animals in Motion' series of stopped-action motion studies completed in 1881. - Dimensions: 4 1/4 inches x 6 1/2 inches- Item #: C1331In his early twenties, Eadweard Muybridge moved to the United States, where he was drawn to the primarily uncharted Western landscape. After a stagecoach accident, he convalesced back home in England and learned photography. Upon returning to the States in 1867, he soon earned his reputation photographing the landscape. Apparently a hot-tempered man, Muybridge shot and killed his much younger wife's lover but was acquitted after a sensational trial, in part perhaps because he was friends with Leland Stanford, railroad magnate and governor of California. They became acquainted in 1872, when Stanford made a bet regarding a horse's gallop, contending that when a horse gallops, at some point all four of