HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)

Details
HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)

Acrobats (1940)

Gelatin silver print. circa 1965. Signed in pencil on the reverse of the mount; typed paper label with title on the reverse of the mount.
19½ x 15 3/8in., flush-mounted.
Literature
Vision in Motion, figs. 345-346.

Lot Essay

This image appears in Moholy-Nagy's comprehensive survey of the teachings of the Institute of Design, Vision in Motion. It is titled there as Multiflash of the "Martels", an acrobatic team. It appears along with a detail of the thrower's head and hands in sequential motion. The label is from The Albany Institute of History and Art.