
Bobby Jones Golf Swing
Catalogue
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 9 5/8 × 7 3/4" (24.4 × 19.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Artist

Printmaking
Harold Eugene Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and photographer who pioneered the stroboscopic flash, a technology that enabled the capture of high-speed motion invisible to the human eye. Working from MIT, where he spent most of his career, Edgerton developed ultra-short duration electronic flashes that revealed the mechanics of movement across disciplines from ballistics to athletics to fluid dynamics. His photographs transformed the technical image into an aesthetic object, presenting bullets in flight, milk splashes, and hummingbird wings with formal precision and unexpected beauty. The work bridged experimental physics and visual art, establishing new possibilities for how light could be weaponized as an instrument of discovery.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 9 5/8 × 7 3/4" (24.4 × 19.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1939-M043191
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





