
Tumbling Tee
Harold Eugene Edgerton's *Tumbling Tee* is a striking gelatin silver print that captures the invisible choreography of motion through his pioneering use of stroboscopic photography. The image freezes multiple sequential positions of a tumbling golf tee in a single frame, revealing the graceful arc and rotation imperceptible to the naked eye. Edgerton's mastery of high-speed flash technology transforms a fleeting, mundane moment into a visually poetic study of time, physics, and movement.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
November 18, 2014
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