Ouch! (Archery)
Date1934
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990
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)
sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-37
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
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.
