Harold Edgerton

Bullet - Splash Formation
1938

A triptych of high-speed black and white photographs capturing the stages of a bullet impacting and passing through a target. The left panel shows a bullet suspended in mid-air just before impact, the middle panel captures the moment of impact with a radial splash pattern, and the right panel displays the bullet's exit with a more pronounced and dispersed splash effect. The images are labeled "Bullet - Splash Formation - 1/1000000 Sec. 2/25 C.1938 Harold Edgerton" at the bottom.
A triptych of high-speed black and white photographs capturing the stages of a bullet impacting and passing through a target. The left panel shows a bullet suspended in mid-air just before impact, the middle panel captures the moment of impact with a radial splash pattern, and the right panel displays the bullet's exit with a more pronounced and dispersed splash effect. The images are labeled "Bullet - Splash Formation - 1/1000000 Sec. 2/25 C.1938 Harold Edgerton" at the bottom.

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Date
1938

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 23 7/8in. (51 × 60.6 cm) Image: 10 3/8 × 20 3/8in. (26.4 × 51.8 cm)

Accession number
96.117.13

Edition
24/25

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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