Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Milk Drop 1)
c. 1935

A black and white photograph depicting a close-up of a milk drop creating a splash upon impact with a larger body of milk, with a single droplet suspended above the splash, all against a dark background. The image is framed with a white border.

A black and white photograph depicting a close-up of a milk drop creating a splash upon impact with a larger body of milk, with a single droplet suspended above the splash, all against a dark background. The image is framed with a white border.

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Date
c. 1935

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm) Image: 10 9/16 × 7 7/8in. (26.8 × 20 cm)

Accession number
96.117.60

Series
Drop Falling into Cup of Milk

Edition
Ed. 10

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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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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