Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Bullet through wood)

c. 1940

A wooden plank with wood shavings burning and sparks rising against a dark background.
A wooden plank with wood shavings burning and sparks rising against a dark background.

Harold Edgerton, Untitled (Bullet through wood), c. 1940. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (19.4 × 24.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation 96.117.19. © 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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Date
c. 1940

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (19.4 × 24.1 cm)

Accession number
96.117.19

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

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

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