Swann Galleries - Photographs & Photobooks - Sale 2426, October 25, 2016

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HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)

Seeing the Unseen: Twelve Photographs by Harold Edgerton.

A handsome portfolio with 12 (of 12)

photographs, including some of Edgerton’s best-known motion studies.With an introduction by

Geoffrey W. Holt. Dye transfer (5) and silver prints (7), the images measuring 13

x10

inches

(34.3x27.3 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), each with Edgerton’s

signature and edition notation 45/60, in pencil, on verso. Folio, black leatherette clamshell box with

a silver-stamped title and illustration; the colophon with the edition notation, in ink; contents loose

as issued. ONE OF 60 NUMBERED COPIES. Boston, Massachusetts, 1938-64; printed 1977

[10,000/15,000]

ShockWaves from Impact,

circa 1965 *

A Girl and Her Horse,

1941 *

Action at the Rodeo,

1940 *

Tennis

Serve,

1952 *

Football Placement Kick,

1934 *

Swirls and Eddies of a Tennis Stroke,

1939 *

Golf Drive

by Densmore Shute,

1938 *

Splash of a Milk Drop,

1957 *

Vortex at a Fan BladeTip,

1973 *

PoleVaulter,

David Tork,

1964 *

Cutting the Playing Card Quickly,

circa 1964 *

Bullet and Apple,

circa 1964.