Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Diver)
c. 1940

A black and white photograph depicting a person performing a handstand in a swimming pool at night, with the image rotated to make it appear as if the person is standing upright. The pool's edge and a diving board are visible in the inverted orientation.

A black and white photograph depicting a person performing a handstand in a swimming pool at night, with the image rotated to make it appear as if the person is standing upright. The pool's edge and a diving board are visible in the inverted orientation.

Not on view

Date
c. 1940

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm) Image: 9 5/8 × 7 7/8in. (24.4 × 20 cm)

Accession number
96.117.28

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.

API
artworks/10829

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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