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Drum-Majorette Throwing a Baton (Miss Muriel Sutherland)
Creator
Harold EdgertonAmerican Photographer · 1903–1990
All works by this person →> Don't make me out an artist. I'm an engineer. I'm after the facts. Only the facts. Harold "Doc" Edgerton learned photography from an uncle in Aurora, Nebraska, during his high school years. Setting up a darkroom in his parents' kitchen, Edgerton went to work during the summer for the Nebraska Power and Light Company. In 1925 he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and went to w
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- about 1948
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The subject is the photographer Harold Edgerton's daughter, a drum majorette in high school when he made this image. By emitting a series of brilliant flashes--each one three-millionths of a second long--the stroboscope, invented by Edgerton, facilitated the recording of motion in progressive stages. Because of the rapidity of her movement, the young woman's black-clad body dissolves into the background, allowing the pure geometry of the baton to define the action.
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