Plate Number 758. Cockatoo flying

Eadweard Muybridge

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph of a series of images capturing a bird in flight. It shows a grid-like arrangement of multiple sequential photographs, each featuring a bird in different stages of flight. The bird is seen against a background segmented by a grid, possibly to analyze its movement. The series captures the motion of the bird's wings and body position as it flies, providing a detailed visualization of flight mechanics. Each frame isolates a distinct phase of the bird's movement, collectively conveying a sense of motion through static images.