Harold Edgerton

Untitled (Milk Drop 4)
c. 1935

A high-contrast black and white photograph capturing a momentary milk droplet impact, creating a small, sharp peak and ripples on the surface of the milk. The image is framed with a white border.

A high-contrast black and white photograph capturing a momentary milk droplet impact, creating a small, sharp peak and ripples on the surface of the milk. The image is framed with a white border.

Not on view

Date
c. 1935

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 10 3/4 × 8 1/4in. (27.3 × 21 cm)

Accession number
96.117.63

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.

API
artworks/10864

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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