Harold E. Edgerton
Back Dive

Back Dive

© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Back Dive
Back Dive
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Back Dive
  • from the portfolio Harold Edgerton: Sports Multiflash Photographs
Datec. 1954, printed 1984
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (21.6 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Samuel R. Dodson III, Richard J.V. Johnson, and Harry Reasoner at "One Great Night in November, 1994"
Object number94.437
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[John Cleary Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Sports: Leisure-Time and Professional," at the Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, Texas, from May 30 to September 4, 2001 (LN:2001.31).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, lower right corner of the margin: "HAROLD EDGERTON"

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