Willi Ruge :: Seconds before Landing, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMAWilli Ruge :: Seconds before Landing, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMAWilli Ruge :: Photo of Myself at the Moment of My Jump. From the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | MoMAWilli Ruge :: Photo of Myself at the Moment of My Jump. From the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | MoMAWilli Ruge :: With my head hanging before the parachute opened, from the Series ‘I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump’,1931 | src MoMARuge, Willi. “Ich fotografiere mich beim Absturz mit dem Fallschirm.” Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 40, no. 21 (May 24, 1931): 844 (as Während des Sturzes, and Die Empfindung der Geschwindigkeit und des Gefahrvollen hatte ich faßt nicht). “I’m photographing myself during a parachute jump” Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 40, nº 21 (May 24, 1931): 844 (During the fall, and I hardly had the feeling of speed and danger). | src MoMAGarland E. Cain :: Autoportrait en parachute. États-Unis, vers 1930. Tirage argentique. | src Lumière des roses – 16e Livraison
V. Leers :: Test of parachute jumping conducted at the Eiffel tower in Paris with a dummy weighing 75 Kg. The device weighted 21 Kg. date: 18 February 1911. Published in Dutch magazine ‘De Prins der Geïllustreerde Bladen’ / source: wikimedia