Harold Edgerton

Moving Skip Rope
1952

A black and white photograph capturing the motion of a female dancer using a long exposure technique, resulting in multiple translucent silhouettes of her movements against a dark background. The dancer appears in a sequence from right to left, with the light trails of a rope or ribbon she is swinging creating dynamic arcs above her. The image is framed with a white border.
A black and white photograph capturing the motion of a female dancer using a long exposure technique, resulting in multiple translucent silhouettes of her movements against a dark background. The dancer appears in a sequence from right to left, with the light trails of a rope or ribbon she is swinging creating dynamic arcs above her. The image is framed with a white border.

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Date
1952

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 × 10 15/16in. (22.9 × 27.8 cm) Image: 6 1/4 × 9 11/16in. (15.9 × 24.6 cm)

Accession number
96.117.72

Edition
53/125 | 26 APs

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
©️ 2010 MIT. Courtesy MIT Museum

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Harold Edgerton
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