Moscow Circus Acrobats
Date1963, printed 1985
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumDye transfer print
Dimensionsimage: 14 3/8 x 18 in. (36.5 x 45.7 cm)
sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-31
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextEdgerton recorded this performance of the Moscow Circus at the Boston Garden. The bright ambient light required him to devise a special shutter timed to correspond with the flash of the strobe.
