Harold Edgerton

Bullet through Banana
1964, printed 1984–90

A photograph of a banana impaled on a stick, with the fruit appearing to be in motion or exploding, creating a cloud of particles around its burst end, against a blue background.

A photograph of a banana impaled on a stick, with the fruit appearing to be in motion or exploding, creating a cloud of particles around its burst end, against a blue background.

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Date
1964, printed 1984–90

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Dye transfer print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 15/16in. (40.6 × 50.6 cm) Image: 14 1/4 × 16 1/4in. (36.2 × 41.3 cm)

Accession number
96.126.6

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
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Harold Edgerton
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