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Salute

Photograph
ca. 1938 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

An unmounted black and white photograph of a white silhouette of a man against a black background with fencing foil taken at high speed and capturing a multitude of positions of the foil

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Salute (assigned by artist)
  • Fencing Salute (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
gelatin silver print
Brief description
Photograph by Dr Harold Edgerton, 'Salute', gelatin silver print, 1938
Physical description
An unmounted black and white photograph of a white silhouette of a man against a black background with fencing foil taken at high speed and capturing a multitude of positions of the foil
Dimensions
  • Paper height: 35.7cm
  • Paper width: 28.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Salute 100 100 flashes per second'; 'Photograph by Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Cambridge, Mass'; RPS ink stamp (ink, ink stamps, verso, paper)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Other numbers
  • 7587 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • E1 - RPS identifier - box number
Collection
Accession number
RPS.965-2024

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Record createdApril 5, 2024
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