Smashing Through, 1986

gelatin silver print

11x14 black and white horizontal gelatin silver print made from a 5x4 vertical black and white internegative made from a 35 mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons ca. 1988. Image of 66' Johan Valentijn designed, Williams & Manchester built 12 meter sloop EAGLE (built 1986 in Newport, RI) at Louis Vuitton Cup race off Fremantle, Australia. Visible in image: cropped starboard bow view of EAGLE on starboard close reach under mainsail and genoas as the hull is lost under a wall of water as it smashes through waves, only the genoa is visible. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Z. Rosenfeld photographer. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 262.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Z. Rosenfeld photographer