Object number2017.22.2
Rising Dove
Date1935
Artist
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton
(American, 1903 - 1990)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print on textured paper, printed 1940s
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Milton Bellin Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
MarkingsOn verso, stamped center in black ink: Photograph by / EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN and GRIER / M. I. T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Copyright
© Harold Edgerton/MIT
BibliographyEdgerton, Harold. Stopping time: the photographs of Harold Edgerton. New York, NY: H.N.Abrams, 1987, p. 61;
Lombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 48;
ProvenancePurchased from Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc.Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryShape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019; Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024DescriptionBlack and white image of a dove spreading its wings in flight. The bird's handler emerges slightly out of focus from the otherwise shadowed background.
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