Harold Edgerton

Sprinkler
1939

Black and white photograph capturing a dynamic moment where water is being sprayed from a sprinkler onto a lawn, with water droplets frozen in mid-air against a dark background.

Black and white photograph capturing a dynamic moment where water is being sprayed from a sprinkler onto a lawn, with water droplets frozen in mid-air against a dark background.

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Date
1939

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 13/16in. (40.5 × 50.3 cm) Image: 12 × 17 15/16in. (30.5 × 45.6 cm)

Accession number
96.117.99

Edition
6/10

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/10900

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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