Harold Edgerton

Bullet - Splash Formation

1938

Three sequential high-speed photos showing a bullet striking and creating a radial splash formation on a surface.
Three sequential high-speed photos showing a bullet striking and creating a radial splash formation on a surface.

Harold Edgerton, Bullet - Splash Formation, 1938. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 20 1/16 × 23 7/8 in. (51 × 60.6 cm) Image: 10 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (26.4 × 51.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 96.117.13. © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Date
1938

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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

Accession number
96.117.13

Edition
24/25

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

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

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