Plate Number 454. Taking a 12-lb. basket from head and placing it on the ground

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a series of black and white photographs capturing a person handling a basket filled with straw. The images are arranged in a grid and show the individual lifting, carrying, and lowering the basket in a sequence. The background of the images features a grid pattern. The person is wearing a dress and a headscarf or cap. The composition appears to be methodical and designed for analytical observation.