Harold Edgerton

Moving Skip Rope
1952

A black and white photograph capturing the motion of a dancer with multiple exposure, creating a trail effect that shows the dancer's movements with a skipping rope over time against a dark background.

A black and white photograph capturing the motion of a dancer with multiple exposure, creating a trail effect that shows the dancer's movements with a skipping rope over time against a dark background.

Not on view

Date
1952

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 × 23 7/8in. (50.8 × 60.6 cm) Image: 15 3/16 × 22 3/16in. (38.6 × 56.4 cm)

Accession number
96.117.71

Edition
18/25

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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artworks/10872

Exhibitions

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

Mar 30–July 15, 2018
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

June 29–Sept 3, 2006

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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