# Animal Locomotion, Plate 758

- By: Eadweard Muybridge (English, active United States, 1830–1904)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Kenneth and Christine Tanaka Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/195560)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b0371e84-c3de-3e81-626e-bfcbd57af964/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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