Harold Edgerton

Lead Shot from a Shot Tower
1936

Black and white photograph capturing a multitude of out-of-focus light spots creating a bokeh effect, with several sharp water droplets suspended in the foreground.
Black and white photograph capturing a multitude of out-of-focus light spots creating a bokeh effect, with several sharp water droplets suspended in the foreground.

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Date
1936

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 3/16in. (25.4 × 20.8 cm) Image: 9 13/16 × 7 15/16in. (24.9 × 20.2 cm)

Accession number
96.117.52

Edition
Vintage

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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Harold Edgerton
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