Harold Edgerton

Glassy Immobility
1932

A close-up black and white photograph capturing a stream of water flowing from a pipe, frozen in motion, with the water's dynamic shapes and splashes highlighted against a dark background.

A close-up black and white photograph capturing a stream of water flowing from a pipe, frozen in motion, with the water's dynamic shapes and splashes highlighted against a dark background.

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Date
1932

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) Image: 17 3/8 × 13 1/2in. (44.1 × 34.3 cm)

Accession number
96.117.96

Edition
21/50

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/10897

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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