Harold Edgerton

Milk Drop Coronet
1957, printed 1984–90

A high-speed photograph capturing a single drop of milk creating a crown-like splash upon impact with a red surface, with a white border framing the image.

A high-speed photograph capturing a single drop of milk creating a crown-like splash upon impact with a red surface, with a white border framing the image.

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Date
1957, printed 1984–90

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Dye transfer print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 16in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm) Image: 18 3/8 × 13 3/8in. (46.7 × 34 cm)

Accession number
96.126.3

Series
Ten Dye Transfer Photographs

Edition
109/150 | 26 APs, 30 SE sets

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/10929

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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