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Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Harold Edgerton

1903 - 1990

Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs


(Massachusetts: Palm Press, Inc., 1985, a proposed edition of 300 numbered copies, 30 publisher's proofs and 26 lettered artist's proofs), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each signed and editioned 'A/P V' in pencil on the reverse, together with the printed title/colophon/plate list, editioned 'V' in pencil. Folio, navy and maroon cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label

images to 18 by 14½ in. (45.7 by 36.8 cm.) or the reverse

portfolio: 25¼ by 21⅛ by 2½ in. (64.1 by 53.7 by 6.4 cm.)

Executed in 1938-73, printed in 1985.

The plates as follows:

Football Kick, 1939

Diver, 1955

Milk Drop Coronet, 1957

Cranberry Juice into Milk, 1960

Moscow Circus, 1963

Bullet through Banana, 1964

.30 Bullet Piercing An Apple, 1964

Cutting the Card Quickly!, 1964

Pigeon Released, 1965

Bullet Through Candle Flame, 1973

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