Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Moscow Circus)
1963

A dynamic circus performance captured in a time-lapse photo, showing acrobats in mid-air wearing yellow costumes with multiple images of them due to the long exposure, against a backdrop of a crowded audience and circus rigging.

A dynamic circus performance captured in a time-lapse photo, showing acrobats in mid-air wearing yellow costumes with multiple images of them due to the long exposure, against a backdrop of a crowded audience and circus rigging.

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Date
1963

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 1/16in. (20.5 × 25.6 cm) Image: 7 1/16 × 9 1/16in. (17.9 × 23 cm)

Accession number
96.117.70

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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