Harold Edgerton

Indian Club Demonstration

1939

A blurred figure spins while layered petal-shaped light patterns form a circular halo around them.
A blurred figure spins while layered petal-shaped light patterns form a circular halo around them.

Harold Edgerton, Indian Club Demonstration, 1939. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 12 3/4 × 10 in. (32.4 × 25.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 96.117.42. © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Date
1939

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 12 3/4 × 10 in. (32.4 × 25.4 cm)

Accession number
96.117.42

Edition
Ed. 10

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

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

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