Lot # 260: Iconic Bobby Jones 1/1000th Photo by Harold Edgerton [PSA Type III]

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Offered here is one of the most popular Bobby Jones photographs in existence - the is the famous 1/100,000th of a second Swing Study of the most legendary swing in golf. 

In 1938, Harold Edgerton of Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier (or EG&G), which still exists today, created this image of Bobby Jones as he swung his driver to hit a golf ball. Each photo taken by Edgerton represents 1/100,000th of a second. The resulting image combining each of these photos is a beautiful and artistic depiction of the greatest swing in the history of golf. While high-speed photography and video has become the norm in sports training today, no one had ever seen the golf swing broken down until this photographic study in 1938. Thanks to Edgerton's invention, the world was finally able to start dissecting the golf swing in ways never possible before. In many ways, all modern golf instructors and swing coaches can trace their origin to this very photograph.?
This image is also very well known in photography circles.

The photograph available here was printed in January 1939, just months after the original image was taken by Edgerton. And it has a full explanation of the photo in German on the back. Incredible condition. PSA Type 3.

6 1/4 x 5 1/8. PSA Type III.