Artist
HAROLD EUGENE EDGERTON (1903–1990)
Title
TENNIS
Medium
Silver gelatin print, mounted on board
Signature
Pencil signed lower right on verso

Dimensions
Photograph: 12 5/16 × 16 11/16 in. (31.3 × 42.4 cm)
Frame: 19 3/4 × 23 5/8 in. (50 × 60 cm)

Description
A tennis player dressed in black is captured executing a forehand drive through the use of Harold Edgerton’s pioneering stroboscopic photography. Multiple exposures, produced by rapid flashes of light, record the precise path of the racket and ball within a single frame. The image exemplifies Edgerton’s innovative fusion of science and photography, transforming athletic movement into a compelling study of motion and time.

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