Moving Skip Rope, ST Special Edition
Date1952
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (15.9 x 24.8 cm)
sheet: 9 × 11 in. (22.9 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 9 × 11 in. (22.9 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-35
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextTo produce this image, Edgerton used his "multiflash." The strobe fired 30 times per second, creating multiple exposures within a single frame.The intricate and erratic trajectory of a jumping rope in motion is clearly captured in this photograph. With obvious enjoyment, the young woman skips forward in Edgerton's laboratory at MIT, nicknamed "Strobe Alley."
