Harold Edgerton

Flight of a Dove
1934

A black and white photograph capturing a white dove in mid-flight above a person's outstretched hands, with the focus on the bird and the person's face obscured by darkness.

A black and white photograph capturing a white dove in mid-flight above a person's outstretched hands, with the focus on the bird and the person's face obscured by darkness.

Not on view

Date
1934

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 23 7/8 × 20in. (60.6 × 50.8 cm) Image: 21 5/16 × 18in. (54.1 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
96.117.78

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.

API
artworks/10879

Exhibitions

Real/Surreal

Oct 6, 2011–Feb 12, 2012

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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