Animal Locomotion, Plate 758
Eadweard Muybridge (English, active United States, 1830–1904)
1887
- Medium
- Collotype, from "Animal Locomotion"
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.5 × 36.8 cm (8 1/8 × 14 1/2 in.); Paper: 48.4 × 61.4 cm (19 1/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Kenneth and Christine Tanaka Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In the late 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge pioneered a method of "instantaneous photography," a technique developed to freeze time by capturing motion. In order to create such sequences, he set up a battery of cameras, 24 in this instance, connected by a clockwork mechanism that triggered the shutters one by one at rhythmic intervals. Muybridge initially devised this process to clarify the movement of horses; through his experiments, he demonstrated that all four hooves leave the ground mid-gallop, thereby settling an intense debate of the era. This print of a cockatoo in flight was originally published in Animal Locomotion, a portfolio of 781 separate series that Muybridge, working under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, created to stand at the intersection of art and science.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
