Harold Edgerton

Untitled (M.I.T. at night - aerial view)
c. 1950

Aerial black and white photograph of a large, detailed complex with symmetrical layouts, possibly a government building or historical site, surrounded by roads and a body of water at the bottom edge. The image is framed with a white border.

Aerial black and white photograph of a large, detailed complex with symmetrical layouts, possibly a government building or historical site, surrounded by roads and a body of water at the bottom edge. The image is framed with a white border.

Not on view

Date
c. 1950

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 16in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm) Image: 14 1/2 × 14 1/2in. (36.8 × 36.8 cm)

Accession number
96.117.67

Edition
3/10

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/10868

Exhibitions

Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography

June 30–Sept 24, 2005

Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection

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