Harold Edgerton

Hammer Breaking Glass
1933, printed 1976–80

A black and white photograph capturing the moment a gloved hand is breaking a piece of glass with a hammer, highlighting the shards and spiderweb-like cracks emanating from the point of impact.

A black and white photograph capturing the moment a gloved hand is breaking a piece of glass with a hammer, highlighting the shards and spiderweb-like cracks emanating from the point of impact.

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Date
1933, printed 1976–80

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 16 1/16in. (50.6 × 40.8 cm) Image: 17 5/16 × 14 1/16in. (44 × 35.7 cm)

Accession number
96.125.1

Series
Ten Photographs

Edition
Ed. 20

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
©️ 2010 MIT. Courtesy MIT Museum

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Harold Edgerton
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