Ouch! (Archery)

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© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, courtesy Palm Press, Inc.
Ouch! (Archery)
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Ouch! (Archery)

Date1934
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 14 5/16 × 18 3/8 in. (36.4 × 46.7 cm)
sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-37
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Label TextTo make this photograph, one of Edgerton's graduate students, an inexperienced archer, took aim at a target. This records the moment when the bowstring, incorrectly released, snapped against his forearm. In later images from the same session, the student wears a forearm protector.
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