Harold Edgerton

Charles Hare Serves
1938

A black and white photograph capturing a moment of a tennis player in mid-service, with the racket extended high above their head and a tennis ball just making contact with the racket. The player's focused gaze follows the ball, and the background is a simple, dark backdrop that contrasts with the bright court surface and the player's light-colored attire.

A black and white photograph capturing a moment of a tennis player in mid-service, with the racket extended high above their head and a tennis ball just making contact with the racket. The player's focused gaze follows the ball, and the background is a simple, dark backdrop that contrasts with the bright court surface and the player's light-colored attire.

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Date
1938

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm) Image: 12 15/16 × 8 11/16in. (32.9 × 22.1 cm)

Accession number
96.117.21

Edition
Ed. 10

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Exhibitions

Flash: Photographs by Harold Edgerton from the Whitney's Collection

Mar 30–July 15, 2018

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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