Cockatoo Flying: Plate 762 from Animal Locomotion
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1884-86
A collotype print of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion-study sequence that freezes a cockatoo’s wingbeats into separate photographic moments to analyze flight.
You first notice the bright white bird recurring across a dark gridded background—twelve frozen instants laid out like frames that turn a single arc of flight into a rhythmic progression of poses.
Part of Muybridge’s pioneering chronophotography, this work helped turn movement into measurable, repeatable image-frames and directly influenced the scientific study of locomotion and the later invention of motion pictures.
Medium
Collotype
Dimensions
7 13/16 × 14 1/4" (19.8 × 36.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Accession
184.1937
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