Tennis - Forehand Drive, Jenny Tuckey
Harold Edgerton, Tennis - Forehand Drive, Jenny Tuckey, 1938 (negative); 1986 (print), gelatin silver print, Gift of Stu Levy and Cris Maranze, © Harold Edgerton, MIT, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc., 2004.65
This work is not currently on view.
- Title
Tennis - Forehand Drive, Jenny Tuckey
- Artist
- Date
1938 (negative); 1986 (print)
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 9 7/8 in x 13 7/8 in; sheet: 11 in x 14 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Harold Edgerton, verso
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Stu Levy and Cris Maranze
- Accession Number
2004.65
- Copyright
© Harold Edgerton, MIT, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
- Terms
Like Eadweard Muybridge before him, Harold Edgerton promoted motion studies for scientific purposes, creating visually dynamic stop-action photographs. While Muybridge employed as many as a dozen cameras, their shutters releasing in rapid succession to make separate pictures of a subject’s movements, Edgerton used high-powered strobe flashes to arrest motion at up to one-one-millionth of a second. In this example, he freezes multiple instances of an athlete's movements and combines them into a single image, creating a photograph of the human form that is both scientifically valuable and visually inspired.
- Exhibitions
2003 In Varied and Particular Ways: Photographs from a Century of Photography Portland Art Museum
2012 Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body Portland Art Museum
