Moving Skip Rope

Object summary

Title: Moving Skip Rope
Object ID: HEE-NC-52001
Date made: 1952
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type: Negative
Major collection: Technology; Photography
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view: No

Description

Fired 30 times per second, Edgerton's multiflash clearly shows the complicated and erratic trajectory of a jump rope. With obvious enjoyment, the young woman (Edith Ann Baylor) skips forward, unaware she is creating intricate patterns. (from "Stopping TIme" (1987), pp. 92-93). (CC)