Baton Toss, Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton

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Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton, Baton Toss
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton, Baton Toss
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
Baton Toss
1953
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
1903–1990
Baton Toss, 1953
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 349 x 276 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Accession number: 1996.0114
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Exhibition Label: "Art for Kansas: Building the Collection, 1988-1998 (Recent Acquisitions)," Nov-1998, John Pultz and Susan Earle The Edgerton Family Foundation gave the Museum this and ten other Edgerton photographs in 1996. Because the Museum's already strong collection of over 130 Edgerton photographs were mostly printed in the mid-1980s by an assistant (for a retrospective of the photographer's work organized by this Museum), the Foundation agreed that their gift would have the greatest significance if it consisted of "vintage" prints. "Vintage" prints are those made close to the time of the initial negative and usually by the photographer. They are valued because they are thought to reflect the photographer's ideas about the image more closely thatn later prints. Edgeton, who was also an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed the electronic stroboscopic flash. He used this device to make photographic records of continuous motion, continuing the work of the nineteenth-century photographers Eadweard Muybridge and E.J. Marey.