Harold Edgerton

Football Kick
1934, printed 1976–80

A black and white photo focusing on a person's lower legs and feet, wearing textured tights and vintage-style ice skates with the blade of one skate lifted, suggesting motion or the act of skating. The background is dark, highlighting the skates and the texture of the ice or ground beneath them.

A black and white photo focusing on a person's lower legs and feet, wearing textured tights and vintage-style ice skates with the blade of one skate lifted, suggesting motion or the act of skating. The background is dark, highlighting the skates and the texture of the ice or ground beneath them.

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Date
1934, printed 1976–80

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 11in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm) Image: 11 1/2 × 9 3/16in. (29.2 × 23.3 cm)

Accession number
96.125.2

Series
Ten Photographs

Edition
20/60

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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Harold Edgerton
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