Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Squash)
1938

A black and white photograph capturing a motion blur of a cat mid-leap, with a series of rings creating a pattern that resembles a peacock's tail behind it. The image has a surreal, artistic quality, with the cat's movement and the rings' arrangement creating an abstract composition.

A black and white photograph capturing a motion blur of a cat mid-leap, with a series of rings creating a pattern that resembles a peacock's tail behind it. The image has a surreal, artistic quality, with the cat's movement and the rings' arrangement creating an abstract composition.

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Date
1938

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/16in. (20.6 × 25.6 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 9 1/2in. (19.4 × 24.1 cm)

Accession number
96.117.83

Edition
Vintage

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/10884

Exhibitions

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

Mar 30–July 15, 2018

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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