Harold Edgerton

Bullet Through Balloons
1959

A black and white photograph showing two inflated balloons hanging on a string, with the shadow of a torn piece of fabric also hanging on the string cast on a wall behind them. The lighting creates strong contrasts and dramatic shadows.

A black and white photograph showing two inflated balloons hanging on a string, with the shadow of a torn piece of fabric also hanging on the string cast on a wall behind them. The lighting creates strong contrasts and dramatic shadows.

Not on view

Date
1959

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Image: 11 1/2 × 18 15/16in. (29.2 × 48.1 cm)

Accession number
96.117.14

Edition
19/90

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.

API
artworks/10816

Exhibitions

Flash: Photographs by Harold Edgerton from the Whitney's Collection

Mar 30–July 15, 2018

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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