Plate Number 770. American eagle flying near the ground

Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

This is a photograph showing the sequential flapping motion of a bird's wings in flight. The image displays a series of individual frames arranged in rows, each depicting the bird at a different phase of its wing motion. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Eadweard Muybridge ¹
Date: 1887 ¹
Medium: collotype ¹
Original: 3,100 × 2,897 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1887)

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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Computed from the image

neutral temperaturemid contrastmid tonessquare

Measured from pixels, not historical readings.

Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

Rivista 'Il calcio illustrato', II, n. 25. 22 giugno 1932, p. 5

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This is a photograph of a baboon climbing a pole, captured in a series of frames. The image consists of two rows, each containing six sequential frames showing the motion of a baboon ascending a vertical pole.

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

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