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Series Title: Portfolio of Ten Dye Transfer Photographs

Football Kick

1938

Harold Eugene Edgerton

(American, 1903–1990)
publisher

Palm Press, Inc.

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Culture
America
Medium
dye diffusion transfer process color print
Measurements
Image: 42.5 x 35.7 cm (16 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.); Paper: 50.6 x 40.5 cm (19 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 1996.347.1
Impression
74
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

This was one of the first color photographs taken using a strobe.

Description

In 1931, electrical engineer Harold Edgerton invented the stroboscope or strobe, a flash that produces split-second bursts of light. It allows photographs to freeze objects in motion and show phenomenon not visible to the unaided eye. It undoubtedly took many tries to create this image. He made it in his lab at MIT, which would have been in total darkness before the flash went off, making it impossible for the kicker to see the ball.

Football Kick

1938

Harold Eugene Edgerton, Palm Press, Inc.

(American, 1903–1990)
America

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