Plate Number 768. Vulture flying
Medium
collotype
Dimensions
image: 15.88 × 45.72 cm (6 1/4 × 18 in.) sheet: 47.63 × 60.33 cm (18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)
Accession Number
2014.79.692
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate Number 768. Vulture Flying*, a captivating collotype print from Eadard Muybridge's groundbreaking *Animal Locomotion* series 1887. Muybridge, a pioneering photographer often hailed as a father of motion pictures, captured this dynamic sequence of a vulture in mid-flight using his innovative battery of up to 24 cameras triggered by the animal's movement across a marked grid. Produced as part of a monumental 781-plate study funded by the University of Pennsylvania, this image exemplifies his scientific quest to dissect and reveal the hidden mechanics of animal motion, challenging l...
About the Artist
Eadweard Muybridge · 1830–1904
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English-American photographer who revolutionized the understanding of motion through his pioneering chronophotographic studies. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames, England, he emigrated to America and became famous first for his dramatic landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, then for his groundbreaking motion studies that proved horses li...