Harold Edgerton

Bent Bat Bumps Ball

1938

Muscular man in white shorts swings a heavy wooden club in a wide athletic stance.
Muscular man in white shorts swings a heavy wooden club in a wide athletic stance.

Harold Edgerton, Bent Bat Bumps Ball, 1938. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 12 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (32.7 × 20.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 96.117.81. © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Date
1938

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 12 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (32.7 × 20.6 cm)

Accession number
96.117.81

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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