Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Acrobats on trapeze)
c. 1963

A black and white photograph capturing trapeze artists performing high above an audience in a circus arena, with multiple performers swinging and hanging from trapezes under bright stage lights.
A black and white photograph capturing trapeze artists performing high above an audience in a circus arena, with multiple performers swinging and hanging from trapezes under bright stage lights.

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Date
c. 1963

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/16 × 10in. (20.8 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 1/2in. (19.5 × 24.1 cm)

Accession number
96.117.22

Edition
Vintage

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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Harold Edgerton
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