Harold E. Edgerton
Indian Club Demonstration

Indian Club Demonstration

© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Indian Club Demonstration
Indian Club Demonstration
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Indian Club Demonstration
Date1939, printed later
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in. (24.3 × 19.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation
Object number96.861
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Harold Edgerton transformed the field of
highspeed photography by adapting the stroboscope from a laboratory instrument into
a common photographic device. Flash photography usually captures a single
instant, but with a multi-flash strobe, Edgerton could record a series of
images on a single negative. The rate of the flash and length of exposure
determined the number of images registered on the film. For this image of a
black-clad man swinging an Indian club, Edgerton photographed at a rate of 100
flashes per second.




ProvenanceHarold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, Boston; given to MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: In black ink, verso: "Please return to DO NOT KEEP".
There is the artist's stamp in black ink, verso: "Harold E. Edgerton May 6 1964 M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass.", stamp in black ink: "copyright 1964 Estate of Harold E. Edgerton 10,697", stamp in blue ink: "H.E. Edgerton M.I.T. 4-405 Cambridge, Mass. 02139".

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