About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Eadweard Muybridge
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Title
- Animal Locomotion, Plate 758
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Published 1887
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Medium
- Collotype, from "Animal Locomotion"
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Kenneth and Christine Tanaka Fund
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Reference Number
- 2008.203
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/195560/manifest.json