Pigeon Released
Date1965, printed 1985
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumDye transfer print
Dimensionsimage: 14 1/8 x 18 in. (35.9 x 45.7 cm)
sheet: 16 × 20 1/8 in. (40.6 × 51.1 cm)
sheet: 16 × 20 1/8 in. (40.6 × 51.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-27
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextFlying from the darkness into the light, a pigeon beats its wings through three movements of its flight cycle. Edgerton's process enables scientists to study in single-image format split-second, natural phenomena that were previously invisible to the naked eye. This photograph records three exposures in one frame. Each exposure lasted 1/100,000 of a second.
